Fisher Denbox Update 2017 

We have them in Roxbury, vt. Caught them on the game cameras

@@gdglock I cross country ski in the sticks over by Haugen WI, and I see fishers over there all the time. They're doing great out here. Super cool animals. Very confident, so easy to observe, and when shown respect they are in no way aggressive....just cute.

No pine Martins in erie yet only fishers

Trust me, in upstate NY they need no help surviving

no, actually they kill everything cats , opossums, fox , nasty bastards

Really? You love them? Do you know how they create terror to other animals? They kill just for fun even.

I think he mentioned BC (as in British Columbia, Canada) in one of these videos

You can find plans for building denboxes at: www.bcfisherhabitat.ca/wp-content/uploads/Davis_2016_-Fisher-Denbox-Report-and-Construction-Drawings-with-2018-addendum.pdf . Have fun and let me know if you get any fishers.

@@davisenvironmentalltd.3894 Thanks for the info....

Hi Austin. You can find plans for building denboxes at: www.bcfisherhabitat.ca/wp-content/uploads/Davis_2016_-Fisher-Denbox-Report-and-Construction-Drawings-with-2018-addendum.pdf . Have fun and let me know if you get any fishers.

I'm wrong. They're only related to martens, lol

got me too

I thought the same thing lol

Yeah I heard 200 also..😆

Same haha my jaw dropped at first

well yes since the male killed all her babies

@@soldatheero Just because he killed them does not necessarily mean he ate them. It’s common behavior of many predators to practice infanticide of their own species and not consume them. Lions and bears are a well known examples. Raptors are a know examples of canibalistic behavior usually preying on nestlings. I’m curious as what Musteloid behavior is specifically in this regard.

@@soldatheero Just because the male fisher killed the kits doesnt mean he ate them, some species kill babies for dominance. For Example a Male Lion will invade a lion pack and kill the cubs so it can reproduce its own DNA with the lioness. Its savage but true.

@@rocket5557 they kill for food or territorial reason , as for the kit they got probably killed for food since they are not territorial threat and a easy prey

He wasn't the father of these kits, but an unrelated male that just happened to find an unguarded nest with some free snacks inside.

ugh! Cruel much?

So its okay for your cat to kill songbirds and wildlife around a feeder,but heaven forbid the other way?1 cat around a feeder is one to many,BANG!

I’d argue you should keep your cat inside unless it’s a barn cat to manage rodents. Feral cats are the #1 predator to native songbirds across the continental US. If anything, fisher cats should be praised for their management of feral cats. I can even relate, I had a wonderful cat who continually weaseled her way outside despite my discouragement and attempt to keep her inside. Unfortunately she snuck out one night when I was bringing in groceries and never came back. Despite my melancholy of her missing presence in my own life, I recognize that the vocal fishers around my property most likely got her and that is better than her praying on song birds or starving to death. Such is life. Keep your surroundings native and they will stay balanced

Cats kill hundreds of song birds every year, not to mention have you ever seen the damage a porcupine can do to a forest? Fishers will hunt and kill porcupines and keep them in check!!!!

@@lukemorris2888 native, balanced..? Humans fucked that one up a long time ago..nice idea tho.. I live in Maine and I can tell you this whole state has been altered from it's natural state...Rivers flooded redirected, ponds/lakes drained/flooded, the complete clear cutting of the state at least 3x since the 1700s.. not to mention an ancient stone lithic society almost completely dynamited and bulldozed away purposely and ignorantly in fear of well.. many things... For starters, generational landowners fear of national publicity and preservation. . . But that's just the beginning.. all these secrets hidden under the guise of being a 'natural State'.. it fools a big majority Everytime.

"In large numbers" you mean, like, before humans started eradicating them? Back when the natural environment was actually very healthy? Or do you mean in excess of their natural population, which is a completely useless statement because an excess of anything is destructive; that's why it's called an excess. It sounds like you're the one working with dated and biased information put out by farmers and trappers in an attempt to justify their destructive enterprises. It's funny, when I started reading actual unbiased information put out by ecologists and biologists, mustelids actually became my favorite carnivore family. "They decimate waterfowl and rabbit populations" in case you haven't realized, those things breed like there's no tomorrow. They *need* to be decimated otherwise they'll take over. "They can calso kill lynx, fox, and fawns" aaaand so what? Lynx are a major predator of hares. Thought you cared about those? Bobcats are major predators of fishers so it balances out. Can you point out anything fishers do that 1) doesn't need to be done and 2) isn't done by other predators you're not prejudiced toward? The objective truth is the environment would be much worse off without fishers, weasels, polecats, etc. If those species were going to destroy anything they would've done so already. The only place I can think of where mustelids are actually a problem is New Zealand and guess what, we're the ones that put them there. You're worried about savage, merciless, environmentally destructive species? Look in the mirror. You'll find the worst there's ever been.

@@ups7739 I don't have quite the same opinion of farmers that you do. And those opinions would make it difficult for us to find common ground, I suppose. I would hope that the fishers, like the one I saw a mile away this morning, would stay where they are and not kill my 3 chickens. I need the eggs and they help with the tick population, which in our area carry a huge risk of Lyme disease.

@@ups7739 good post. What mustelids did they transplant to New Zealand?