TABLE E-3 - LISTED SENSITIVE SPECIES FOR THE NWLO SHOWING THE STATUS OF THESE 

 SPECIES IN RELATION TO THIS PROPOSED PROJECT 



Sensitive Species Assessed 



> pis her (Mertes pennanti) 



Issue 



There is concern that timber 

 harvesting could alter habitat or 

 create disturbance that would be 

 detrimental to the fisher. 



Existing Environment 



DNRC has listed the fisher as a 

 sensitive species due to their use 

 of mature and late-successional 

 habitats {DNRC 1996) . Forest- 

 management considerations for 

 fisher involve providing for 

 resting and denning habitats near 

 riparian areas while maintaining 

 travel corridors. Fishers are 

 generalist predators and use a 



variety of habitat types, but are 

 disproportionately found in stands 

 with dense canopies. In the Rocky 

 Mountains, fishers appear to 

 prefer late-successional 

 coniferous forests for resting 

 sites and tend to use areas within 

 150 feet of water more than their 

 availability on the landscape. 

 Such areas typically contain large 

 live trees, snags, and logs, which 

 are used for resting and denning 

 sites and dense canopy cover, 

 which is important for snow 

 intercept {Jones 1991) . Modeling 

 the above conditions using SLI 

 data generated an estimate of 

 fisher resting and denning habitat 

 {Heinemeyer and Jones 1994) . 



The proposed project area ranges 



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