Merry fisher!
Our supporters, staff, and friends celebrate all sorts of holidays, special events, and snowy days this time of year, so we just wanted to add one more joyful moment to the season with this news. The Olympics ecosystem is a little bit wilder, a little more balanced, and even better this New Year, with release of fourteen more pacific fishers into the wilds of the Olympic National Park...
That is one happy fisher! This female, translocated from healthy BC populations, bounds away in the forest around Sol Duc. We are thrilled to be part of the effort to return 100 fisher to the Olympics!
Our supporters, staff, and friends celebrate all sorts of holidays, special events, and snowy days this time of year, so we just wanted to add one more joyful moment to the season with this news. The Olympics ecosystem is a little bit wilder, a little more balanced, and even better this New Year!
This past week, fourteen more pacific fisher were released into the wilds of the Olympic National Park. I'll post more detailed news as soon as everyone is back from holiday...we are technically closed today, but this was too good to wait!
This is the second release of its kind this year. From January to March, Conservation Northwest worked with state and federal agencies to release into the wilds of Olympic National Park fisher captured in BC, where populations are healthy. That population continues to thrive, ranging farther than biologists expected.
A total of about a hundred fishers translocated from home forests in southern British Columbia will be released into the park over the next three years.
And here is a fun snow-day activity: you can track the first group of released fishers online.
