Animals

Tree-climbing carnivores called fishers are back in Washington’s forests

Trapping and habitat loss had wiped out the population

photo of people gathered around a

A crowd gathers to watch a fisher released into Washington state’s Mount Rainier National Park in December 2016. About 280 of these tree-climbing animals have been translocated from Canada since 2008 to help fisher populations rebound.

KEVIN BACHER/NPS (CC BY 2.0)

By Brianna Randall

Holding an antenna above his head, Jeff Lewis crept through an evergreen forest in the Cascade mountains, southeast of Seattle.