Environmental groups filed notice this week of their intent to sue the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service unless the agency reverses its decision to deny listing the weasel-like Pacific fisher under the ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is proposing Endangered Species Act protections for the Pacific fisher, a relative of the weasel that persists in small numbers in forests of southwest Oregon and ...

The Pacific fisher was rejected as a candidate for Endangered Species status. One population in Sierra, Southern California, did receive some federal protection. The U.S. Department of Fish and ...

The Pacific fisher, a small, carnivorous forest-dwelling mammal, is a candidate for listing under the federal Endangered Species Act this year, and big wildfire could be to blame – or rather, the lack ...

YREKA, Calif. (AP) - Federal biologists have pushed back the deadline for deciding whether to grant Endangered Species Act protection to the Pacific fisher, a cousin of the weasel that lives in ...