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| Silver Bear | Nov 5 2010, 11:51 AM Post #1 |
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About 40 years or so ago Carla worked for Dave Hicks, fur buyer & gun shop plus. She would come home and talk about buying fisher pelts from the guys up in the Adirondacks, at that time a decent pelt was worth $200 and up, a pelt today is $30 to $50. We understood that DEC released fisher in the north country to try to control the porcupine population. Porcupine were rasing havoc girdling many trees, both on State land and paper Co. property, porcupine was the favorite fare of the fisher. Now the fisher have spread nearly state wide, they have raised heck with our squirrel population in the woods but don't come in the villages so that's about the only place we have many squirrel. They also go right into the coon dens and kill young coon, I believe natures way of eliminating competion for the food chain. They are vicious and fearless. I fear that if they have been released in your area you will see a drastic change in your small game population including turkeys as fisher will clime and catch them at roost. I'm attaching a picture that Carla copied from the NY State Trappers Forum. |
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David Johnson 1006 Co Rt 48 Richland, NY 13144 315-298-8200 | |
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| monkey49 | Nov 7 2010, 10:29 PM Post #2 |
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thanks for posting those pics. I believe you are rite about the identity of that thing.judging by the tracks-you would think it is much bigger. front feet is big as a silver dollar and the back looks between skunk and large coon. hope i can get it. will mount it if i do. first one i ever seen. |
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