Cleveland rocks, and is also once again home to an animal that had not been seen in the area for over 100 years.
Cleveland Metroparks reports that the long-lost fisher, a mammal similar to weasels, badgers and otters, has been spotted in Ohio’s Cuyahoga County for the first time “since the species originally disappeared in the 1800s.”
“According to the Ohio Division of Wildlife, it’s estimated that the fisher was extirpated in Ohio by the mid-1800s and the major causes were unregulated harvest and loss of habitat,” Cleveland Metroparks writes in an Instagram post.
“This is tremendously exciting, as this is yet another extirpated native Ohio mammal species to be documented for the first time in Cleveland Metroparks,” the post continues. “The return of fishers and other extirpated species like otters, bobcats and trumpeter swans are a result of conservation efforts and emphasize the importance of our healthy forests, wetlands, waterways and natural areas in Cleveland Metroparks.”