Bring the Pacific Fisher Back to Washington's Wildlands

#168 WILD NORTHWEST, October 5, 2007
A Message from Conservation Northwest
=====Keeping the Northwest Wild=====

Bring the Pacific Fisher Back to Washington's Wildlands
Support fisher reintroduction into Olympic National Park

In a historic effort, the National Park Service, with support from Conservation Northwest and the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, is proposing to reintroduce the Pacific fisher to the Olympic National Park. Fishers are small, reclusive members of the weasel family that were trapped to near extinction at the turn of the century. Despite a 2004 feasibility study that found abundant prey and denning habitat in the park, fisher haven't been documented on the Olympic Peninsula since 1969. Fisher biologists have determined that reintroduction is the best option for restoring fisher to Washington, and the Olympic National Park has now completed its review of a reintroduction plan. We're ready to bring the fisher home!

Take action to support fisher recovery! Please contact the National Park Service and tell them you support plans to reestablish self-sustaining populations of fisher into the Olympic National Park. In particular, let the Park Service know that you support translocation of fisher from British Columbia as the best method for ensuring population viability, and that you hope that future efforts will seek fisher reintroduction in other parts of the state.



Comments are needed by October 10 (next Wednesday). Please send a comment
through our action center.



Or send comments to:
Superintendent -- Fisher Reintroduction
Olympic National Park
600 East Park Avenue
Port Angeles, WA 98362

Park Service comment website
Your comments must be submitted or postmarked by midnight Mountain Time on ' 10/10/2007 by 11:59 PM.'


Although it requires a couple more steps, the Park Service prefers that comments be submitted through their website.

Visit our website for more information about fisher. Or view a copy of the Fisher Reintroduction Plan.

Thanks so much for your help, and for keeping the Northwest wild!

Erin Moore

Publications Coordinator

Conservation Northwest
1208 Bay Street #201
Bellingham, WA 98225


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