Ongoing fisher research in southern Oregon now includes trapping and collaring bobcats

CENTRAL POINT, Ore. – The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife is conducting research on fisher, a forest-dwelling carnivore that once occupied forests across the Cascade and Klamath-Siskiyou regions.

Today, Oregon’s remaining fisher persist as a small, isolated population in the Klamath-Siskiyou Mountains. And ODFW researchers want to know how fisher use available habitat and what interactions they have with other carnivores.

Keifer Titus leads ODFW’s Western Oregon research team. He says that research began…