A trail camera in Murrysville picked up a rare sight in Westmoreland County. PixCams said one of their trail cameras captured photos of a fisher, a weasel-like animal that was once extirpated in Pennsylvania,

Fishers, omnivorous members of the weasel family, were completely eliminated from Pennsylvania during unregulated hunting and massive deforestation in the late 1800s. At the time, the last recorded Pennsylvania fishers were spotted in places such as Clearfield,

An extremely rare member of the weasel family appears to be back in the southwestern Pennsylvania area after it was believed to be extinct. An omnivore mammal called a fisher, was spotted on a camera set up on a log in Murrysville.