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.
Pacific Fishers Need Your Socks
USFS Vegetation Removal Project
Below is a link to the Draft Environmental impact statement for the Fish Camp Project. The Fish Camp project is from the Jackson/Big Sandy Road northward along the east side of Highway 41 to the Yosemite National Park boundary. Public comment is welcome.
http://www.fs.fed.us/r5/sierra/projects/fish-camp/index.shtml
Mountain Lion Warning
On December 27, 2010 the Valley Wildlife Office received a faxed mountain lion report from the Wawona Ranger Office. The report stated that on December 24th, about 5 p.m., a visitor was hiking the Chilnualna Falls Trail with his 7 year old daughter when they had a mountain lion encounter. According to the reporting party, a mountain lion moved quickly towards the young girl as she was hiking ahead of her father on the trail. The father yelled and the lion backed off, but “shot” after the girl again when she ran up the path out of fear. The father grabbed his daughter and waved a stick at the lion while yelling at it. The lion stayed about 30 feet away, but followed the hikers as they backed down the trail. After they reached the paved section of the stock trail (less than 1/4 mile from where they first encountered the lion), they could no longer see the lion.
Please review the attached flyer and report any mountain lion sightings or incidents to the nearest Ranger Office.
Mountain Lion Warning Flier Dec. 2010
