The fisher was once hunted nearly to extinction and its populations have been slow to recover.
The National Park Service said sightings of at least one of the animals in Yosemite since 2017 meant the little critter ― part of the weasel family ― had extended its range farther north than originally believed:
Along with the images, the park found two scat samples. The images, scat, evidence from scent-detecting dogs and genetic analysis pointed to between one and six individual fishers in the area. This winter’s sightings followed one north of the Merced in 2017, the first in that area in almost a century:Biologists were thrilled when, last fall, this wildlife camera footage revealed the first documented sighting of a Pacific fisher north of the Merced River in Yosemite in nearly 100 years.#WorldWildlifeDay pic.twitter.
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