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A homecoming of sorts: nearly a century after disappearing from the region, a top predator returns to Olympic National Park.(animal reintroduction)

Publication: National Parks
Publication Date: 22-MAR-08
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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A dog kennel in British Columbia, Canada, isn't the sort of place you'd expect to find an elusive wild animal. But for a few days in January, a kennel was home to a dozen fishers--sleek, brown, mink-like predators-about to be reintroduced to Olympic National Park an...

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...after 80-year absence. Months earlier, biologists in Washington State had struck a deal with British Columbia's Ministry of Environment to pay trappers $500 for each animal they captured. Fishers from this region provided the closest genetic match to the species that once thrived in America's Northwest.

The project's lead wildlife biologists-Patti Happe from Olympic and Jeff Lewis from the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW)--had hoped to capture...

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