Connecticut’s Fishers: Established, Elusive and Unevenly Distributed
Fishers are secretive forest carnivores in the weasel family. Despite their name, they do not primarily eat fish. They are known for climbing trees, moving through dense forests and being one of the few predators capable of regularly killing porcupines. Connecticut reintroduced fishers in 1988, and the species eventually became established across much of the […]