Fishers

   Found some critter tracks last week in the snow. Looked like a huge mink track.
  Talked to one of my buddies that does alot of trapping and he said they were probably fisher tracks.
 Anyone else seen one or trapped them???

My son caught and released one in a coon set in 2005, here in Warren County. Several of my friends have caught them also. I'd say the reintroduction went pretty well.

Ours was on Bull Hill, outside of Sheffield. I also had one run across the road in front of me on Cherry Grove Rd... narrowly missed it.

My Dad saw one on Bull Hill also, somewhere in the vicinity of the Rod & Gun Club.
 
Pheasant Hunter...sent you a pm.

I have sean them in the hills of Cambria county as well behind my fathers place.  Big claws. look like they would be a handfull.

DOING MY 3 MILE RUN 2 WEEKS AGO I SAW A COYOTE !! IN MY HOUSING PLAN IN SARVER !!

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Jeb,
 
S-10 ???? are because the discussion was about th Mammal not the bird.
 
mak

While a fisher has somewhat the same coloration as an otter their body configuration is more like a racoon and would be more apt to eat a fish trapped in a puddle whereas an otter is long and sleek, like a mink, and will swim underwater after fish, etc. I would be more inclined to think that is what you saw.

ORIGINAL: duncsdad

I had one cross the road in front of me Thursday morning in Blair County.  It took a while before I figured out what it was.

 
route 22 Shawn?
 
I had one cross in front of me right before Yellow Springs Road (back road to Williamsburg) about 3 weeks ago.  I was on my way to State College.  Too big to be a groundhog.  Hair was almost black.

ya, they're cute untill there are to many of them and the small game population declines more. now why would they be introduced in PA. forests? what did a porcupine ever do? it wouldn't be because of the lumber companies?? if they were introduced to eat porcupines why didn't the educated people that introduce them figure out they would multiply and cause harm to other small game, turkey, farm animals?? hopefully this doesn't turn into the great fisher migration from canada that followed there favorite food=porkupines... 

seen one in ludlow area while hunting there 2 years ago.

Talk about predation S-10.  Feeding corn to prey sure makes it easy for predators, not to mention other countless negative impacts it causes.   Even dumas Gary Alt and all the dumas PGC biologists can tell you that.  Ever the AllState ear tagged game commission stocked coyote can figure that out.

The fact is S-10 is that corn is bad for deer, in practically every way, unless it's there ONLY way to survive.  Which I find to be impossible with our past decades snow fall and herd reduction.

Ask you neighbor to plant alphala and you won't see the deer touch that corn.  I watch it every year on the local farms.  70-80 deer in one field and no one even close to corn.  That right there should tell you something about corn.  It is deterimental to pregant females too, and can easily kill a yearling because of digestive problems.  Every animal builds up enyzmes for a particular food, then a sudden change can starve them EVEN with a full stomach.  A deer's stomach is far more complex than ours containing 4 separate chambers.  Remember the discussion that a deer doesn't mature until age 3, and IF the body doesn't get good nutrition, the antlers will do without.

I see a noticeable problem already, your bucks haven't gotten any bigger since AR, I trust you judgement so --  right there could be the answer or part of it.

Not Gary Alt..

Everyone complains about the predators in NC PA.  Concentrating deer CAN'T be a good thing no matter how you look at it.

I spend a lot of time with deer because I too like watching them but I think it's better to go their home than for me to bring them to mine.  We're both better off that way.

Yes, I do. 
How am I to know about you "large area" and "small" feeder.  It doesn't matter when you put it out.  They STILL have trouble digesting it, especially young deer.  What is "early" supposed to mean?  You are still switching a wild animals diet.  If corn is the most healthy food your deer got, you've got a REAL bad nutrition problem.  They shouldn't have to eat hemlocks.  Sounds like MAJOR forest problems.  Glad the truth finally came out.  Your feed sucks if deer have to browse on hemlocks ... and to think you bust on lumber companies.  Amazing.