Last Thursday, February 17, I went to Centennial woods in search of tracks. Right, when I entered the woods I found fisher tracks.
I backtracked the fisher from the entrance (near the campus police station) of the woods to the shore of Centennial Brook. In doing this I was able to see part of the woods that I had never been to before. This part of the brook was more marshy; I ended up getting my foot wet breaking through ice that I thought was solid ground. After tracking the fisher to a dead tree that I believe it ran up, I encountered new tracks. They looked like a fisher but smaller. Using iNaturalist I was able to determine it was an American Marten. I was excited about this because I learned in my Environmental Studies class that they require at least 2 square miles of viable habitat. I am glad Centennial woods could provide this.
(American Marten)