{"id":356740,"date":"2025-12-18T19:58:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T19:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/356740\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T19:58:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T19:58:08","slug":"fisher-not-seen-in-ohio-for-more-than-100-years-caught-on-camera-at-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/356740\/","title":{"rendered":"Fisher not seen in Ohio for more than 100 years caught on camera at park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An astonishing discovery was made after <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/10\/07\/science\/fisher-mammal-once-eliminated-in-pa-seen-outside-pittsburgh\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">a wildlife camera<\/a> spotted a fisher roaming through\u00a0Cleveland\u00a0Metroparks \u2014 its first appearance in Cuyahoga County for over a century, park officials say.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0park\u2019s trail\u00a0camera captured the footage earlier this year, marking it as its first confirmed sighting of the species in the county since the 1800s, according to Cleveland Metroparks.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A fisher is a native mammal to the state and typically dwells within the Northern parts of Ohio.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In the video you can see the\u00a0animal\u00a0scampering past the camera and at one point, look right at it.<\/p>\n<p>Park officials described the discovery as \u201ctremendously exciting\u201d as the fisher\u2019s return emphasizes the impact and importance of long-term conservation and habitat restoration efforts throughout forests, wetlands and waterways.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.24444444;display:block\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37959598\" width=\"448\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1800s-cleveland-metroparks-said-park-117484681.jpg\" alt=\"A wildlife camera in Cleveland Metroparks captured a fisher not seen in Cuyahoga County for more than a century.\" class=\"wp-image-37959598\"  \/>A wildlife camera in Cleveland Metroparks captured a fisher not seen in Cuyahoga County for more than a century. Cleveland Metroparks<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio:0.79980469;display:block\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37959599\" width=\"472\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1800s-cleveland-metroparks-said-park-117484680.jpg\" alt=\"A fisher is a native mammal to the state and typically lives in the northern parts of Ohio.\u00a0\" class=\"wp-image-37959599\"  \/>A fisher is a native mammal to the state and typically lives in the northern parts of Ohio.\u00a0 Cleveland Metroparks<\/p>\n<p>This happens to be a significant discovery, as Cleveland Metroparks said that the\u00a0Ohio\u00a0Department of Natural Resources\u00a0lists fishers as a species of special interest, pointing out they disappeared from most of the state by the mid-19th century due to habitat loss and unregulated trapping.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An astonishing discovery was made after a wildlife camera spotted a fisher roaming through\u00a0Cleveland\u00a0Metroparks \u2014 its first appearance&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":356741,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[1313,64,63,1043,1625,12293,46954,128,338],"class_list":["post-356740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-animals","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-discovery","tag-lifestyle","tag-ohio","tag-parks","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}