Pacific Fishers Need Your Socks

The Sierra Nevada Adaptive Management Project needs your clean, used socks to study the elusive Pacific Fisher, a rare forest carnivore.  The socks are filled with chicken bait and attached to tree trunks near camera stations.  The fishers climb the trees to reach the baited socks and trigger a camera used to capture images of this member of the weasel family.  Researchers are studying the effects of forest thinning on area wildlife at a U.S. Forest Service project in the local Sierra Nevada.  Old, unmatched socks without holes are preferred.  Socks can be delivered to the Sierra Nevada Adaptive Management Project, 40799 Elliott Drive, Oakhurst, CA  93644.  For more information contact Anne Lombardo at amlombardo@ucdavis.edu.  For updated infomation on the socks and some great pictures of the Pacific Fisher visit the project’s website at http://snamp.cnr.berkeley.edu.