We're happy to share some good news about this fuzz-face, aka the Pacific fisher! Following years of work by the Center and other groups, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service just proposed increasing the amount of protected critical habitat for Pacific fishers in the southern Sierra Nevada by 41K acres. Relatives of minks and otters, Pacific fishers once roamed forests from British Columbia to Southern California. Intense logging and historical trapping caused their numbers to plummet, leaving only two naturally occurring populations. Only 100 to 500 fishers survive in the southern Sierra Nevada, and another few thousand live in southern Oregon and Northern California. They were recently reintroduced in Washington state. #endangeredspecies #pacificfisher #smallbutfierce Photo: Bethany Weeks / Flickr