Pashos: saunterings

Sunday, August 13th, 2006 at 3:28 am

This article about Fishers is really interesting. It tells you a lot about this fascinating little animal.

By Hope-Valarie Pashos
Thursday, August 10, 2006 – Updated: 11:20 AM EST

Fishers belong to the family Mustelidae, which includes badgers, mink, martens, otters, skunks, weasels and wolverines.

Fishers are classified under the subfamily Mustelinae, which has a total of 33 species in nine genera. There is only one species of fisher, which is also called the pekan. The fisher is found only in North America.

It is distributed along the Pacific Northwest coast from British Columbia to northern California; in the interior it ranges from the panhandle of Idaho and western Montana up to northern Alberta and Saskatchewan. In the east they are now found in southern Canada, New England and New York, and in scattered locations in Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Virginia.