A rare, elusive creature has returned to Northeast Ohio, and there’s picture proof of its presence.
A fisher was spotted on a Cleveland Metroparks trail camera earlier this month. This is the first confirmed fisher sighting in Cuyahoga County in nearly 200 years, and the first fisher sighting at Cleveland Metroparks since its establishment in 1917.
Fishers were considered to be extinct in Ohio by 1883 due, in large part, to habitat loss caused by humans…