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Fisher Conservation Assessment
and Strategy
Pacific Fisher Style
Interagency Conservation Team
Steering Committee: USFS, BLM, NPS, FWS,
BIA and Tribes, States (CA, OR, WA), British
Columbia Ministry of the Environment
Fisher Science Team: Keith Aubry (PNW)-Team
Lead, Bill Zielinski (PSW), Steve Buskirk (U of
WY) and Mike Schwartz (RMRS)
Fisher Biologist Team: Bob Naney (USFS-R6) &
Laura Finley (FWS)-Co Team Leads, Jeff Lewis
(WDFW), Esther Burkett (CDFG), Don Whittaker
(ODFW), Mark Higley (Hoopa Tribal Forestry),
Paul Phifer (FWS-R1), Linda Hale (OR/WA
BLM), Amy Krause (CA BLM), Cathy Raley
(PNW), Patti Happe (NPS), Jim Claar (USFSR1), Diane MacFarlane and Rick Truex (USFSR5)
Historic and Current Range
Fisher Range in British Columbia
• Current range
is
approximately
200 km north
of the
international
border.
• The extent of
occupation of
this current
range is
unknown.
Effective fisher
conservation requires
coordination and
management of habitat
across administrative,
state, and international
boundaries.
Interagency Assessment and
Strategy Will Facilitate;
Coordinating Data Collection
and Analysis in the West
Coast DPS
Coordination with Private
Timber Companies on CCAA
Development
Cooperation & Involvement as
an Interagency Conservation
Program
Coordinating Information
Exchange Between States and
Federal Agencies, NGO’s and
Private Industry
Coordination of Research &
Monitoring Through the Fisher
Science Team
Integration of Fisher
Conservation in Agency
Programs
Assimilating research, monitoring , survey
information to develop a comprehensive
assessment and strategy
For example:
•
Tribes: Development and
implementation of long-term population
monitoring using genetic tagging for
Pacific fisher on the Hoopa Valley
Reservation, Ca
•
Washington Department of Fish and
Wildlife Cooperative Fisher
Reintroduction Program
•
Multiple independent studies being
conducted by private timber
companies.
•
Ongoing research and monitoring
being conducted by PNW, PSW and
USFS Region 5
Pacific Fisher CCAA with Sierra
Pacific Industries and Green
Diamond Resource Company
Habitat
Conservation
Measures: SPI
manages 1,218,648
acres of forestland
within the historical
range of fisher
Other listed species which
use similar habitat
• Spotted owl (northern
and California)
• Marbled murrelet
Anticipated Timeline
Candidate
Status, April
2004
Bio. And Science
Teams
August/September
2005
December 2006
Draft CA and
CS
June 2007
Final CA
and CS
Peer and
Agency Review