Fisher in Alaska
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Fisher are now clearly making in-roads to southeast Alaska. The first was decades ago, and was surrendered. Another was taken several years later. It is hard to say if any more were taken over the next 20 years, due to the fact they were an anomoly, and were required to be surrendered. It was determined about 8 years ago that the best way to gauge actual take was to provide a season for them in unit 1c, with an annual limit of 1. Since then, the reported harvest has been o-4 animals annually. Sex ratio trending towards females, 60/40, or so. The areas of take are clearly expanding, both north and south. My very limited, short term observations indicate this could be detrimental to the historically abundant marten. What are your thoughts and experiences?
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Re: Fisher in Alaska
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Interesting, yukon. I have a few theories, but need far more "boots on the ground" information. Hope others chime in, too.
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Re: Fisher in Alaska
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I can't tell you about Alaska - but Fisher and Marten have lived in the northern half of MN for my lifetime. Their range overlaps and always has to my knowledge. Having said that, both are struggling big time, and I'm not sure MN DNR understands entirely why. Generally speaking, the trend has been down, down, down for both. In MN, you can only trap two, combined. The season is six days long. Imagine that? Pretty poor chance of getting a fisher. Better for Marten. The population of both increases as you go north for the most part. Fisher, however, expand south farther than the Marten by 100-200 miles.
Seems they also like a good mixture of mature hardwoods and conifers. Hollow trees for dens and squirrels and such. The fisher are elusive with big territories - not nearly as big as a wolverine, but they seem to come through once every week or two. I have only ever seen them from the deer stand, usually on the move early in the morning, and I swear they never ever stop. Probably a lot like a wolverine in that respect. I have never laid eyes on a Marten in MN. They are mostly up in the arrowhead region of MN, but extend to north central too. I have caught one fisher before, but as you know, never a pine marten :-)
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Re: Fisher in Alaska
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With the exception of a couple of large river systems, we don't have any hardwood stands. Even those are comprised o cottonwood, (supposedly a favorite for fisher denning sites). It will be interesting to see how it plays out, to be sure.
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Re: Fisher in Alaska
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Joe, thank you for your in-sight. And to add credence to your observations, the apparent increase in local harvest, and expansion of territory is indeed coinciding with several years of reduced snowfall, here.
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Re: Fisher in Alaska
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For what it's worth, they are listed as a "species of concern", in B.C., yet still are open to trapping. Maybe b.c.tomcat can chime in.
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Re: Fisher in Alaska
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My field experience , albeit limited, says its all about food, specifically a fishers favorite prey, the porcupine...as yukon points out I caught one 12 pound male a few years ago and boy howdy was that Thing was loaded with porky quills, 50 plus tips between the flesh and skin , had 3 big ones broke off in its throat. It had porcupine in it's stomach. I had several cubbies in the area loaded with deer scrap, bones, duck carcasses...one walked within 2 feet of it but was bee lining it to the creek where it smelled a juvenile porky and just made a mess of it in the snow, and ate everything except the guts and a foot bone, then continued on its way. The food is here and the accommodations aren't too shaby, i also have a hypothesis that fisher wont turn down fish, especially the salmon that seasonally return to creeks and tributaries. There is an undergrad student working with fish and game doing a research project on fisher here locally.
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Re: Fisher in Alaska
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Is she coming back this year? Wasn't sure if it was just last year, or not.
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Re: Fisher in Alaska
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I was talking to an older guy the other day and he mentioned someone caught a fisher way up here about 10-15 years ago.
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Re: Fisher in Alaska
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For what it's worth, they are listed as a "species of concern", in B.C., yet still are open to trapping. Maybe b.c.tomcat can chime in. AV from my perspective it isn't worth much....a friend of mine was at a resource meeting last week in northern BC. He said the regional biologist told them that the wolverine should be considered 'endangered.' There is no evidence to support that claim. In fact most trappers believe the wolverine population is swinging upwards. Even left leaning CBC ran an article that said as much this winter. I've been hearing about the wolverine decline for a few years now. IMO they have an agenda to move them onto the endangered species list, and facts simply dont matter....kind of like the Russian collusion hoax, tell lies long enough and before long it becomes fact.
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Re: Fisher in Alaska
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Well, anecdotally, the wolverine pop here also appears to be on the up-swing. However, we have a recent increase in local trappers, and some are going further, and trapping areas that have been un-molested for many years, resulting in an increased harvest. Time will tell if it is sustainable, or if it disrupts dispersal.
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Re: Fisher in Alaska
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For what it's worth, they are listed as a "species of concern", in B.C., yet still are open to trapping. Maybe b.c.tomcat can chime in. Yes they have been "blue listed" for as long as I can remember which I believe is unwarranted. They are simply a species which occur in low numbers over a large area similar to their larger cousin the wolverine.There is really no threat to over harvesting by trapping, on registered lines, with harvest controls (management) by the trapper. Winter snow conditions, as previously discussed is a major factor re their occurrence in any area. The greatest threat to their population is the recent large fires and vast logging ( large clear cuts) of their suitable habitat and lack of dispersal routes over these large cuts. IMO food source is not a controlling factor as a fisher is an opportunistic predator/scavenger that will prey on a wide variety of animals including hares, grouse, fish, squirrels, birds and their eggs, berries, mice and voles and CARRION.
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Re: Fisher in Alaska
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Just google Ontario Fur Managers Federation-it should come up. I don't know how to do those link things.
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Re: Fisher in Alaska
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My brother has lived in the center of BC for the last three decades - couple hours west of Prince George. I have visited him quite a bit in all seasons. I could get really excited about trapping Marten there. Lots and lots of marten. I don't think he has fisher, but if he does, they are pretty rare. He has raised beef and has 5,000 acres of "government graze" at his disposal, until more recently. Now, he has given up his cattle herd, but knows those hills as good as anyone. I will have to "pick his brain" a little more next time we talk. He is a hunter, not really a trapper - but always hob-knobbing with local sportsmen. Mostly Aspen and Doug Fir there. Just adding this because I think someone asked about BC earlier. Obviously, if they are coming in, this is where they are coming from. Doubt anything is going to happen too fast, but over the long term, it seems they could definitely expand and adapt. AV you and me are probably too dang old to see that! But I suppose if you are concerned - you and Mad Mike could put up a border and not let em through :-)
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Re: Fisher in Alaska
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We have few snowshoe hare in the Juneau area, (a few pockets, here and there), but usually abundant small rodents, birds, fish, berries, etc. Probably why we don't have lynx, (with the rare exception of one or two taken in a 5 year or so period) porcupine are abundant
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Re: Fisher in Alaska
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As an aside, Tim Hiller at the Wildlife Ecology Institute in Helena, MT has taken on the task of re-writing Wild Furbearer Management and Conservation in North America. The original version developed by the Ontario MNR and OTA as shown by Boco is from 1987 and it is due for a serious update and inclusion of complex contemporary issues.
I have the honor of having been invited to participate in the project. I will be working on writing part of the Trapper Education portion.
I do not recall the exact timeline, but it will be quite a while before the book/CD are out...
Pete Sounds like Mr Hiller is taking it seriously. The fact that your name will be on the list of contributors will add a great deal of credence to this new version. They couldnt have chosen a more knowledgable trapper. Think I might have mentioned this before Pete, but your name always comes up when trappers start talking about guys who really know their way around the woods even here in Canada. I first heard about you back in the early 80s when I was just getting serious about wolf trapping.
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Re: Fisher in Alaska
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They need to update for the international trapping standards(and bmp's) for sure and add new biological and management information that has been advanced.
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Re: Fisher in Alaska
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RossCoak saying that it's all about food, specifically porcupine, I think is simplifying it too much. Having the ability to kill porcupine during the lean winter months I think is the deciding factor in fisher range. Porcupine are not easy to kill without a bullet or a baseball bat. If they're gonna be killed by teeth and claws then they need to be grabbed by the face. Have you ever chased a porcupine and tried to shoot it between the eyes or club it in the face? I have tried many times. I filmed this last year: start the video @ 0:45 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVyjb95FNK4 You see what it does when I try to get to its face? Smart critter it knows how to use that armor. Now, a fisher is about 100x quicker than my lard (This word is unacceptable on Trapperman), and on the bare forest floor that you see in that video it could kill that big porcupine; but soft snow deeper than fishers' legs is going to slow down a fisher considerably. I seen a porcupine protect itself from two GermanShepards just by keeping its face up against a large tree. And once a porcupine gets up a tree it's game over; a porcupine up a tree has no natural enemies (except for maybe a bear swatting it out of the tree), not even fisher can out-maneuver it up there. Also, porcupine can hole up for weeks during freeze or times of deep snow, and are completely protected when denned up they have no enemies (except bear maybe). I do a lot of tracking in the snow when I can, and even though parts of where I trap have high densities of porcupine I rarely see their tracks, they're holed up. Most porcupine here in the Catskills are >3,000' elevation, where snow gets >3' deep most winters. Porcupine at that elevation here, in winter, have no natural enemies. They live until they descend into the valley roads to lick up the salt residue left roadside by snowplows, and then get squashed by vehicles and eaten by ravens. Up north in AK and the Canadian provinces, if it weren't for marten and wolverine (and maybe lynx?), I think roadside salt would be a porcupine's worst enemy. The book pages in Boco's photos reiterate a few things that I mentioned in my 1st post on this thread, but also says that both fisher and marten prey on snowshoe hare. What the pages don't say is that hare with snowshoes can outrun fisher in soft snow. I think those authors were analyzing scat during summer months. And I bet that the fisher scat they found that contained marten fur was during summer too. Next time you guys have a marten and a fisher side by side have a look at the feet. Of course the marten feet are smaller, but pound for pound they are much larger. Marten have "snowshoes" fisher don't. And we see this same difference between short-tailed weasel and long-tailed weasel. ST-weasels are northern animals and their feet, ounce for ounce, are much larger vs the feet of LT-weasels, which are southern animals. Bobcat feet vs Lynx feet, the list goes on and on. So again, ability to kill in winter, in powdery snow, I think that's what defines the northern boundary of fisher range. We tend to classify many furbearers as either northern or southern. Gulo northern. LT-weasel southern. But I don't think fisher fit into that simple classification. They're the only mustelid that occupy just the central part of North American continent. BcTomCat I agree fisher is an opportunistic predator/scavenger that will eat all of those animals on your list, and then some. And I like that you capitalized "CARRION" cause I know that during late winter/early spring here every predator here eats deer that starved or froze to death. (Trappers would see a lot more sign of that but come March they're usually done with land trapping so they don't see it.) Carrion is very, very important. It's most abundant when a lot of predators are on the verge of starving to death and is literally the difference between life and death. And we all seen that everything eats gut piles left by hunters during autumn. But, most of those animals on BcTomCat's list are safe from fisher in deep, soft snow. Snow handicaps fisher. Mike the only time I'd recommend porcupine as fisher bait is when non-target animals like coon, possum, skunk are clogging up sets (and I don't think you have many coon, possum, skunk as far north as AK). I'd use 1/4 carcass cut lengthwise with quills facing out. We have lots of fisher and some marten and very very few porkies + an average of 100 inches of snow each season where I trap. Some times the fisher wins the race: Too many tracks. It looked like two or three fishers came to the kill.
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Re: Fisher in Alaska
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EB where's the 100"?
We see leaves in those tracks; looks like the snow is <1" Those photos were 2017 first week of November. In 2018 the woods were closed on Nov. 17 for truck travel. Last I knew we were at 160 inches this season.
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Re: Fisher in Alaska
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I just seen a picture today that was taken above my hometown of aklavik. A coyote. I knew they’d show up eventually. Picture was taken at black mountain. Not a safe place for a coyote with the wolves that are always in that area.
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Re: Fisher in Alaska
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This is all very interesting, and like most things furbearer, anecdotal, and best-guess. One of our local biologists did necropsy on 5 local fisher. 3 females, 2 males. They were collected over the last 3 years. Of the females, 2 were juveniles, and had not been impregnated. The 3'rd had indeed given birth. One male was determined to be a juvenile, and one was an adult. Waiting on stabile isotope analysis, as to diet. They didn't do stomach content, for some reason.
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Re: Fisher in Alaska
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. We have lots of fisher and some marten and very very few porkies + an average of 100 inches of snow each season where I trap. It’s often stated that deep snow hinders the fisher ability to adapt to an area. It’s not actually the snow depth that hinders a fisher’s ability to use a suitable habitat, it’s the condition of the snow. No matter the depth of the snow level if it develops a suitable crust that will support fisher, within several days or so following a significant snowfall, they can establish a territory and survive reasonably well as long as a food supply is available.
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Re: Fisher in Alaska
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I just seen a picture today that was taken above my hometown of aklavik. A coyote. I knew they’d show up eventually. Picture was taken at black mountain. Not a safe place for a coyote with the wolves that are always in that area. I just saw one that came out of the Yukon that was trapped, where there is a road or rail system the coyotes will travel. Was not a pruty western soft hair type but dark haired. He did travel down with 30 wolverines in the shipment.
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Re: Fisher in Alaska
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Eddy McLeod said Johnny Lennie shot a coyote below his camp back in the day.. it was eating his garbage he thought it was a wolf. So it is not a totally new thing.
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Re: Fisher in Alaska
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No matter how you look at it I would love to have the opportunity to take a fisher, it and an Arctic fox are the only two furbeaers in Ak I have yet to take and I have a son in Acric fox country now so it is a matter of timing and i will have that one off the bucket list I hope
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Re: Fisher in Alaska
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Otterman the grass is greener... .. .
Humans want what is not readily accessible to them. Trappers down here in the L48 say "No matter how you look at it I would love to have the opportunity to take a _____" fill in the blank, any of the furbearers that you have up there that we don't have down here. I thought it would be fun to trap raccoons (which we do not have up here.) It WAS fun................... but then I tried to scrape enough fat off one to put the hide up! Now I don't think they are as much fun as I envisioned... Geesh, worse than a Kodiak fox! Pete
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Re: Fisher in Alaska
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Otterman the grass is greener... .. .
Humans want what is not readily accessible to them. Trappers down here in the L48 say "No matter how you look at it I would love to have the opportunity to take a _____" fill in the blank, any of the furbearers that you have up there that we don't have down here. I thought it would be fun to trap raccoons (which we do not have up here.) It WAS fun................... but then I tried to scrape enough fat off one to put the hide up! Now I don't think they are as much fun as I envisioned... Geesh, worse than a Kodiak fox! Pete Been there done that Pete and your right and so are you Joe. However I never had the pleasure of a possum or a skunk either but somehow i can manage to live without that pleasure
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Re: Fisher in Alaska
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Well, I admit to the same envy, HOWEVER, I have taken Kodiak fox, coon, opossum, and even a couple skunks, (long time ago). I absolutely prefer marten, and the odd gulo, above all others!
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Re: Fisher in Alaska
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Oh yeah...............? Well I had the "top lot" coons in the ATA Auction in Fairbanks!
Maybe Daniel Boone hats are coming back into style?
(Or maybe they were the ONLY coons in the sale.....!)
Pete That would be my hunch. And a pretty clever marketing syrayegy, to boot!
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Re: Fisher in Alaska
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04/03/19 12:20 AM
04/03/19 12:20 AM
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Osky
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There has been much said here about deep snow inhibiting feeding habits of fisher. Up in northern Mn when the winter gets very cold and or very snowy bunches of porcupines take refuge in the tamarack and cedar swamps. There are so many trees naturally uprooted in those soft soil bog swamps the porcupine hole up down in those root masses. The fisher are very good at finding them there and even in the deepest of snow they move around easily in those bottoms.
Osky
"A womans heart is the hardest rock the Almighty has put on this earth, and I can find no sign on it" Jabless in Minnesota www.SureDockusa.com
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Re: Fisher in Alaska
[Re: alaska viking]
#6513765
04/09/19 12:30 PM
04/09/19 12:30 PM
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Posts: 3,518 Moved to Fbks, Ak.
martentrapper
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There is a thread on trap talk about fisher preying on lynx. Certainly don' t want fisher cutting into our lynx pop. MT
Last edited by martentrapper; 04/09/19 12:30 PM.
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Re: Fisher in Alaska
[Re: martentrapper]
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04/09/19 10:31 PM
04/09/19 10:31 PM
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Posts: 4,656 49th State
mad_mike
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There is a thread on trap talk about fisher preying on lynx. Certainly don' t want fisher cutting into our lynx pop. MT Don’t have to worry about that down here, we don’t have a population of lynx or fisher. One shining statement from the fisher study done in Taku was that fisher and wolverine cannot cohabit.
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Re: Fisher in Alaska
[Re: alaska viking]
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05/09/19 05:22 PM
05/09/19 05:22 PM
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Posts: 45,523 james bay frontierOnt.
Boco
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Fisher and wolverine co-habitate in Northern Manitoba,and a few other provinces in Canada.
Last edited by Boco; 05/09/19 05:27 PM.
Forget that fear of gravity-get a little savagery in your life.
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Re: Fisher in Alaska
[Re: Boco]
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05/18/19 09:23 PM
05/18/19 09:23 PM
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Posts: 4,656 49th State
mad_mike
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Fisher and wolverine co-habitate in Northern Manitoba,and a few other provinces in Canada. I sort of figured out that was the case here in SE AK.
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Re: Fisher in Alaska
[Re: alaska viking]
#6540238
05/19/19 09:24 AM
05/19/19 09:24 AM
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Posts: 5,514 Orergon
alaska viking
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"Made it two years not being censored"
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"Made it two years not being censored"
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Yep. I caught a fisher this year in a gulo cubbie, then a wolverine in the same set 2 weeks later.
Just doing what I want now.
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