A wildlife camera captured a fisher in Ohio’s Cleveland Metroparks, marking the species’ first confirmed sighting in Cuyahoga County in more than 100 years, officials said.
The trail camera recorded a fisher, a medium-sized mammal related to weasels, mink and otters, earlier this year, marking the first verified sighting of the species since the 1800s, according to park authorities.
Fishers once ranged widely across Ohio but disappeared from much of the state by the mid-19th century due to unregulated trapping and loss of habitat…