The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation is proposing updates to fisher and marten trapping seasons beginning in 2026-2027. The updates would expand fisher and marten trapping ...

Despite its name, the fisher doesn't eat fish or live by the ocean. This shy, plush-furred member of the weasel family inhabits mature forests and munches on everything from birds to small mammals to ...

Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook. I am a conservation biologist with a specific interest in wildlife. Last April I wrote and submitted a paper to the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board ...

Last autumn, on a remote forest road, I saw my first fisher. A rare sighting of a rare creature - I was elated. A few years earlier I came face-to-face with a pine marten on a high, wild trail in the ...