{"id":190546,"date":"2025-12-18T03:46:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T03:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/190546\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T03:46:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T03:46:09","slug":"see-it-fisher-caught-on-camera-in-cuyahoga-county-in-over-100-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/190546\/","title":{"rendered":"See it: Fisher caught on camera in Cuyahoga County in over 100 years"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Trail<\/a> <\/p>\n

Trail camera spotted the first confirmed sighting of a fisher in Cuyahoga County, Ohio since the 1800s, according to Cleveland Metroparks.\u00a0<\/p>\n

CUYAHOGA COUNTY, Ohio- An astonishing discovery was made after a wildlife camera spotted a fisher roaming through Cleveland<\/a> Metroparks \u2014 its first appearance in Cuyahoga County for over a century, park officials say.<\/p>\n

‘STRANGE’ CREATURE THOUGHT TO BE EXTINCT FOUND IN REMOTE RAINFOREST<\/a><\/p>\n

The park\u2019s trail<\/a> camera 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

A fisher is a native mammal to the state and typically dwells within the Northern parts of Ohio.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Fisher <\/p>\n

Fisher spotted on trail camera in Cleveland Metroparks in Ohio<\/p>\n

(Cleveland Museum Of Natural History \/ FOX Weather)<\/p>\n

In the video you can see the animal<\/a> scampering past the camera and at one point, look right at it.<\/p>\n

Park officials described the discovery as “tremendously exciting” as the fisher’s return emphasizes the impact and importance of long-term conservation and habitat restoration efforts throughout forests, wetlands and waterways.<\/p>\n

HOW TO WATCH FOX WEATHER<\/a><\/p>\n

This happens to be a significant discovery, as Cleveland Metroparks said that the Ohio<\/a> Department 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":"Trail camera spotted the first confirmed sighting of a fisher in Cuyahoga County, Ohio since the 1800s, according…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190547,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[85,46,141,386],"class_list":{"0":"post-190546","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}