The Nose Knows: How scent-detecting dogs locate fishers, lynx, and other hard-to-find wildlife species
Read more about WDC and Pepin, a Belgian Malinois, a European breed trained for drug and explosives detection, search and rescue, and personal protection (it’s the only breed used by the U.S. Secret Service). Pepin has been trained to smell the scat (feces) of fishers, a large member of the weasel family. Fishers are one of the rarest animals in the Rocky Mountains. Researchers at the Missoula-based U.S. Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station are working with Parker, co-founder of the Montana-based Working Dogs for Conservation (WDC), and her canine crew to locate the rare predators and better understand why so few exist.
