'Interesting little predator' that hasn't lived in Pa. woods in 100 years to have comeback fate decided this month [View all]

It’s a bushy tailed creature with reddish fur that hasn’t lived naturally in Pennsylvania for more than 100 years.

That could change very soon.

That’s because when the Pennsylvania Game Commission meets later this month — Saturday, Jan. 27 — it is slated to decide on a plan for reintroduction of the American marten.

“We’ll be asking the board to accept those plans,” Pa. Game Commission Furbearer Biologist Thomas Keller told the station. “So if the board would accept the Marten plan, then that would give us the green light to begin moving forward with reintroduction. Of course, if the board would not accept the plan, then that’s where the project would end.

The Pa. Game Commission previously said that public support for reintroduction was at 92 percent.


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