Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook. On Jan. 23, on a cold, still, moonlit night, I sat in the Adirondacks and, as is my wont, listened for wild sounds. Because I sat beside a set of big ...

The fisher cat, or fisher, is an elusive carnivorous mammal, which is not a cat and isn't particularly fond of fish. Populations thinned by trapping and deforestation have been bolstered in the U.S.