For 12 years, Ohio residents have called in at least 40 sightings of a sleek, slender-bodied mammal traipsing through the state.
But it wasn’t until December 13 that Cleveland Metroparks — a series of nature preserves in Greater Cleveland, Ohio — confirmed that they had verifiable proof that fishers had returned to Cuyahoga County.
Until then, it had been nearly 200 years since the mammal had officially returned to the state…