{"id":356408,"date":"2025-12-18T17:22:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T17:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/356408\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T17:22:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T17:22:07","slug":"rare-fisher-sighting-in-cleveland-metroparls-marks-conservation-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/356408\/","title":{"rendered":"Rare fisher sighting in Cleveland Metroparls marks conservation success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"G7HZKQZZ4VGKFPSXSJESFBMSSY\">A fisher, a weasel-like mammal not documented in Cuyahoga County since the 1800s, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cleveland.com\/news\/2025\/12\/rare-discovery-in-cleveland-metroparks-marks-a-wildlife-return-not-seen-in-centuries.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.cleveland.com\/news\/2025\/12\/rare-discovery-in-cleveland-metroparks-marks-a-wildlife-return-not-seen-in-centuries.html\">has been captured on a Cleveland Metroparks trail camera<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"ZKDLTHUIQVHHZPI5LIKGPKFVLU\">This marks the first confirmed sighting of the species in the county in more than 200 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"QNJKX2U77BBPJMJEWWIGIY6Y6M\">\u201cThe return of fishers and other extirpated species like otters, bobcats and trumpeter swans are a result of conservation efforts and emphasize the importance of our healthy forests, wetlands, waterways and natural areas in Cleveland Metroparks,\u201d the park system said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"65ASHXZVMJF3PBS2XHWUAU7X5M\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/fisher-ohio-county-first-time-century\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/fisher-ohio-county-first-time-century\/\">According to CBS News<\/a>, fishers disappeared from Ohio in the mid-1800s due to widespread deforestation and unregulated hunting. The species\u2019 return to Cuyahoga County follows a pattern of gradual recolonization across the state, with 56 documented sightings across eight Ohio counties since the first modern Ohio sighting in 2013.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"O6NIHDRXLFFG5BSEPTUU4FNFRI\">Metroparks officials said the reappearance is \u201ctremendously exciting,\u201d marking another native species once wiped out in Ohio to naturally return to the region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A fisher, a weasel-like mammal not documented in Cuyahoga County since the 1800s, has been captured on a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":347061,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,201],"class_list":{"0":"post-356408","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}