ORIGINAL: Windwalker7
Why, when they say they are low on funds?
You'd think they'd avoid any new projects and worry about finances.
Fishers are one of the few predators that regularly kill and eat porcupines.
Could it be, that the PGC is on another mission to save the trees. They seem really concerned about Timber, I mean trees.
Of all the game animals that could use funding ( pheasants, rabbits, grouse ) they choose to reintroduce another predator.
“Over the past 25 years, we have successfully reintroduced or bolstered the marginal nesting populations of bald eagles, ospreys and peregrine falcons and returned river otters to sizeable chunks of their former range in the Commonwealth. The fisher reintroduction extends this wonderful list of wildlife management success stories and further enhances the diversity of Pennsylvania’s wildlife community.”
Fishers were released in Pennsylvania from 1994 to 1998, and have made great progress expanding their range from release sites in the Quehanna Wild Area, Allegheny National Forest,
http://www.pgc.state.pa.us/pgc/cwp/view.asp?A=11&Q=157811