We got them in NW PA. Saw two this year deer hunting actually. I've been seeing them up in NY for about a decade. Our game commission in PA helped to re-introduce them here. Turkey numbers have been on the decline since. I guess they go right up the trees and get them in the roost.
I never understood the re-introduction rationale. Sure they used to be here, but the ecosystems have already adjusted to their absence. Now everything will get screwy until it re-adjusts again. Sometimes we should just leave well enough alone. Trying to fix the mistakes of the past can be just as detrimental as the original mistake, where nature is concerned anyway. Nature is a wonderfully self regulating living breathing system. She can pretty much take care of her self, with the exception of extreme cases of pollution of course. If she wanted fishers back in PA she would have got them here eventually.
Set a few traps for them this year but no luck. It's a short two week season and you can only take one. Maybe next year. There are still turkeys at that spot so I'm guessing the fisher population there isn't very high. I may think differently after spring gobbler however.
