I saw a Fisher last month up near Sanger Lake in Del Norte. At first I thought it was a Mink but watched it running along a downed Cedar and saw it clearly. Beautiful. 💕🌲🌎🐾
That's amazing! There are also Humboldt Martens in that area, so that could have been it as well. Either way, that's an amazing sighting in a cool part of the world!
Yea it was during the afternoon in late June at my camp way up on the Middle Fork Headwaters. At first it looked like a really black cat or monkey the way it walked ha ha then i saw it clearily......Am going back up with my Son next week to hike up Youngs peak and will get a picture if i can. Thanks for the info. 👣🐾🌎💕 Note: After checking out a bunch of content on both the Fisher and the Marten, I'm positive it was a Fisher that still had it's shiny soft black coat head to tail. The stark Black really stood out against the forest background. Great to see a healthy Fisher thriving up in the Siskiyous. 🌎🐾💕
The map needs updated, there have been Fishers back in the Olympic's in Washington State and the South Cascades of Washington State for about 5 years now. If the only issue was logging then they would not have made comebacks in other areas outside the Northwest some areas, for example the Southern Oregon area they still inhabit is a major logging area, something else is at play that we need to find out to bring them back. Fisher's are a natural benefit to timber companies since they prey heavily on porcupines who do serious damage to young trees. By the way a good chunk of lost lumber mill jobs (which always far outnumbered actual logging jobs) have been lost to big timber companies shipping vast amounts of unmilled logs to Japan, South Korea and China who pay top dollar for raw logs, rather than mill them here and employ our people, it is not all just the spotted owl. At about the 13:00 mark where he talks about lost mills and automation, what it actually means is small family companies got pushed out of business and only the giant multi nationals survived who as I mentioned ship many of the raw logs overseas. I love Fishers and all wildlife but the guy at 15:00 is a raging A hole, he does not give a damn about people whose lives also matter, he would care if it impacted him, he is a prime example of the ever growing divide between urban and rural, at some point rural America is just going to say eff you and cut off urban America's food, power etc.
Hi Dean! Thanks for the comment and for watching. You're absolutely spot-on about the maps and, because this was produced in 2013/2014, not all of the information is still accurate as far as ranges and threats go. And I do agree with you about threats. Logging, of course, is not the only cause of fisher declines. I chose to focus on it here because of the interesting dichotomy and story....a story that, hopefully, helps people see the divide you reference and provides an example of that divide being bridged to some extent. I think that it's important to present a variety of opinions on a topic and definitely don't expect anyone to agree with all of them. However, what I hope this does, is cause people to kind of scratch their heads and say, "Well, is what this person said actually the way it is?" And, subsequently, I hope that people use this as a jumping off point to do their own research and draw their own conclusions. The bottom line is that I completely respect your sentiment, agree with many of your points, and hope that you can recognize why I made some of the production decisions that I made.
I am from rural Ohio. We gave away our wilderness areas for jobs many years ago. Now the jobs are gone and so are our wilderness areas.@@peterkleinhenz
We in Ohio made the trade. We took the jobs at the cost of our wilderness. Now the jobs are gone and the wilderness is gone as well. But we have some great parks.
I saw a Fisher last month up near Sanger Lake in Del Norte. At first I thought it was a Mink but watched it running along a downed Cedar and saw it clearly. Beautiful. 💕🌲🌎🐾
That's amazing! There are also Humboldt Martens in that area, so that could have been it as well. Either way, that's an amazing sighting in a cool part of the world!
Yea it was during the afternoon in late June at my camp way up on the Middle Fork Headwaters. At first it looked like a really black cat or monkey the way it walked ha ha then i saw it clearily......Am going back up with my Son next week to hike up Youngs peak and will get a picture if i can. Thanks for the info. 👣🐾🌎💕 Note: After checking out a bunch of content on both the Fisher and the Marten, I'm positive it was a Fisher that still had it's shiny soft black coat head to tail. The stark Black really stood out against the forest background. Great to see a healthy Fisher thriving up in the Siskiyous. 🌎🐾💕
@@erindunebuggy9772 That is so amazing! Please share the photo if you end up snapping one! I'm jealous of your adventures!
The map needs updated, there have been Fishers back in the Olympic's in Washington State and the South Cascades of Washington State for about 5 years now. If the only issue was logging then they would not have made comebacks in other areas outside the Northwest some areas, for example the Southern Oregon area they still inhabit is a major logging area, something else is at play that we need to find out to bring them back. Fisher's are a natural benefit to timber companies since they prey heavily on porcupines who do serious damage to young trees.
By the way a good chunk of lost lumber mill jobs (which always far outnumbered actual logging jobs) have been lost to big timber companies shipping vast amounts of unmilled logs to Japan, South Korea and China who pay top dollar for raw logs, rather than mill them here and employ our people, it is not all just the spotted owl. At about the 13:00 mark where he talks about lost mills and automation, what it actually means is small family companies got pushed out of business and only the giant multi nationals survived who as I mentioned ship many of the raw logs overseas. I love Fishers and all wildlife but the guy at 15:00 is a raging A hole, he does not give a damn about people whose lives also matter, he would care if it impacted him, he is a prime example of the ever growing divide between urban and rural, at some point rural America is just going to say eff you and cut off urban America's food, power etc.
Hi Dean! Thanks for the comment and for watching. You're absolutely spot-on about the maps and, because this was produced in 2013/2014, not all of the information is still accurate as far as ranges and threats go. And I do agree with you about threats. Logging, of course, is not the only cause of fisher declines. I chose to focus on it here because of the interesting dichotomy and story....a story that, hopefully, helps people see the divide you reference and provides an example of that divide being bridged to some extent. I think that it's important to present a variety of opinions on a topic and definitely don't expect anyone to agree with all of them. However, what I hope this does, is cause people to kind of scratch their heads and say, "Well, is what this person said actually the way it is?" And, subsequently, I hope that people use this as a jumping off point to do their own research and draw their own conclusions. The bottom line is that I completely respect your sentiment, agree with many of your points, and hope that you can recognize why I made some of the production decisions that I made.
I am from rural Ohio. We gave away our wilderness areas for jobs many years ago. Now the jobs are gone and so are our wilderness areas.@@peterkleinhenz
We in Ohio made the trade. We took the jobs at the cost of our wilderness. Now the jobs are gone and the wilderness is gone as well. But we have some great parks.