Alex Fraik
@akfraik.bsky.social
Research scientist | Evolution, pop gen & conservation genomics | views & typos are my own | 🐟🐺🧬
This doesn't seem to be a unique outcome, as fishers translocated into OR appear to have also more or less stayed put and kept to themselves. It would be great to see an updated synthesis of these historic translocation efforts, building off this great paper!
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Carnivore Translocations and Conservation: Insights from Population Models and Field Data for Fishers (Martes pennanti)
Translocations are frequently used to restore extirpated carnivore populations. Understanding the factors that influence translocation success is important because carnivore translocations can be time...
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November 18, 2025 at 9:42 PM
This doesn't seem to be a unique outcome, as fishers translocated into OR appear to have also more or less stayed put and kept to themselves. It would be great to see an updated synthesis of these historic translocation efforts, building off this great paper!
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
Interestingly, although significant time has passed, we observed no evidence of admixture between the Rocky Mountain and ancestors of the translocated, Midwestern fishers. In fact, we only identified one animal with midwestern genetic ancestry.
November 18, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Interestingly, although significant time has passed, we observed no evidence of admixture between the Rocky Mountain and ancestors of the translocated, Midwestern fishers. In fact, we only identified one animal with midwestern genetic ancestry.
Using >30 years of data opportunistically collected by @usfs.bsky.social, state and tribal co-authors and partners (mostly from hair/poop), we were able to characterize the genetic ancestry of the endemic Rocky Mountain and translocated fishers distinctly across the landscape.
November 18, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Using >30 years of data opportunistically collected by @usfs.bsky.social, state and tribal co-authors and partners (mostly from hair/poop), we were able to characterize the genetic ancestry of the endemic Rocky Mountain and translocated fishers distinctly across the landscape.
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The first interview by Carl Zimmer is a good one: "She Studied How Logging Affects Pollinators: Kim Ballare was a research ecologist with the U.S. Forest Service until her federal grant “got snatched away.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/s...
She Studied How Logging Affects Pollinators
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October 10, 2025 at 8:38 AM
The first interview by Carl Zimmer is a good one: "She Studied How Logging Affects Pollinators: Kim Ballare was a research ecologist with the U.S. Forest Service until her federal grant “got snatched away.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/s...