An elusive critter called a fisher was spotted in an Ohio county for the first time since the 1800s.
In an Instagram post on Saturday, Cleveland Metroparks shared trail camera footage of a fisher that was captured earlier this year. The park system said the Ohio Division of Wildlife confirmed it’s the first fisher sighting in Cuyahoga County since the species was extirpated from the state more than a century ago.
Cleveland Metroparks said it’s estimated that fishers were extirpated, meaning they went extinct locally, in the mid-1800s because of unregulated harvest and loss of habitat…