I’ve heard a lot of people grumble about it because it may affect the Turkey population.
I don’t know how true that is. A friend of mine is always catching possum and coon in cage traps but she has a Hen with over a dozen poults walking around in her yard at the same time.
I would love to have pine marten around here. But they’ll still make us pursue them with footholds.
Def one of the prettiest furbearers.

I have yet to see a fisher so I’m not holding my breath about the martens

Not going to happen,with the lack of game do we really need another predator

You have a lack of mice and small rodents?

Donner, ferals ate em all.

No, my point is we need to spend that money on helping rebuild the game animal population before we introduce another predator

What wetdog said. With our depleted small game population we sure don’t need another predator right now.

Five rabbits at once eyeing up my garden.
Plenty squirrels too. Grouse about extinct
and ringnecks don't count.
Chipmunks declined, must be snakes.
I hear groundhogs are scarce too.
Plenty here.
Pa is a big area with differing habitats.

The big timber folks North of I80
may want the martens?

What we need is a managed habitat introduction program to return the small game to a population that may and I said MAY support an introduced predator program. The key to a successful population of any living animal or plant is proper management by educated and again I said EDUCATED people to sustain proper HABITAT to support the main adjective. We have a long row to hoe to get back the habitat we have lost - nature needs balance - "build it and they will come."

I'm all for it. Small game population? Seems to be on the up cycle. We have more rabbits and squirrels than I've seen for many years. Now, maybe you can control that with habitat to some degree. I'm doubtful. I think if you have martens habitat you'll be fine and probably never would have many in intensely farmed areas.

My response is because of what fisher have done to the turkey's in my area
And the farming practices, that's a whole different issue

Because of marten reintroduction efforts here, we have special trap restrictions in those areas:

Another gimmick to sell people another permit to catch something we already paid to restore.

I refuse.

Limited trapping is what I would see as a likely, major drawback. I would not be surprised if PA closed off an entire area of the state for the margins to recover in after reintroduction.

A legal take on birds of prey would greatly help small game populations.

Keith

There’s hawks everywhere . I see them constantly while driving to work.

Imagine how many millions of rabbits, squirrels, pheasants, quail, turkey poults and other game animals they eat a year in PA.

I once watched catch a Cooper's Hawk catch and eat an entire hatch of bobwhite chicks over the course of an hour. Birds of prey are a major cause in low small game numbers.

Keith

While there at it may as well waste a pile of money and bring mountain lions back as well.

Wonder the PTA stance on marten?

And the Timber Wolf

Owls are more of a problem in my area
Hawks aren't in large numbers around this area

Eagles are cutting into the Redtail action over here.
They run the big rivers and the tribs.
Not seen 20 yrs ago, now old news.

my opinion is our game commission has rocks for brains... thats all i have to say about that.