Habitat Suitability Index Models: Fisher

The fisher (Martes pennanti) is the largest member of its genus and is found only i n North America (Powell 1982). Within the contiguous United States, indigenous and reintroduced populations presently inhabit portions of the Appalachian Mountains from New England south to West Virginia in the east; northern Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Michigan's upper peninsula in the Midwest; northern Idaho and western Montana in the Northwest; and as far south as northern California along the West Coast.