Fisher Translocation Photo Gallery

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Aaron Facka checks a live trap set in Siskiyou County to capture fisher for release in the northern Sierra Nevada.

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A fisher in a handling cone used to safely restrain animals so they can be tranquilized, equipped with a radio transmitter, and tested for disease.

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US Fish and Wildlife Service Biologist Scott Yaeger and DFG Senior Environmental Scientist Richard Callas prepare to coax a fisher into a handling cone.

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CDFW’s Shelly Blair holds a tranquilized male fisher in the Department’s mobile wildlife laboratory.

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A tranquilized female fisher and implantable radio-transmitter (white cylinder).

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CDFW Veterinarian Deana Clifford surgically implants a light-weight radio transmitter into the abdomen of a female fisher.

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View into a transport box which is divided in two sections for feeding and sleeping.

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A male fisher peeks out of a transport box at the release site.

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Fishers in transport boxes (one fisher per box) in transit to Sierra Pacific Industries’ Stirling Management Area.

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CDFW scientists Richard Callas and Scott Hill release a fisher onto Sierra Pacific Industries’ Stirling Management Area.

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An incense cedar den tree used by a female fisher in April 2010.

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A den in a Douglas-fir used by a female fisher in April 2010.

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A male fisher photographed at a camera station near Stirling.

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A female fisher bringing quite a large gray squirrel back to her den.

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A female fisher carrying a kit within the Stirling Management Area. Although this female, as well as others released this winter have occupied dens, this is the first photographic documentation that reproduction has occurred.