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Originally Posted by Red Bullets
A more recent tidbit.. There was a recent successful re-introduction of an animal into the parklands that was never really publicized much. The Fisher.
In 1990 twenty fisher were released a few miles east of Edmonton in the Blackfoot/Cooking Lake Recreation area. They were monitored for 2 years using radio telemetry. Most stayed in the area and to this day there are sightings east of Sherwood Park ,28 years later, which would suggest successful natural breeding. I remember talking to one of the people involved in the project and he told me they lost tracking on one of the fishers 3 miles upstream of Devon on Conjuring Creek.
So next time you are exploring, riding, or hunting around the Blackfoot grazing lease and Cooking lake area keep and eye out for a fisher.
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No kidding!
I would never have guessed that Fisher would stay in such developed habitat.
Here they seldom stray into developed land.
But then I would never have guessed that Moose would thrive in that region either.
It makes me wonder what would happen if Elk were re-introduced into the parkland portion of our province. I read that they did inhabit the southern half of Alberta and Saskatchwin when the fur traders first found their way into the west.