In January, Drs. Melanie Kunkel, Jacqueline Frair, David Needle, and Krysten Schuler were awarded a Multistate Conservation Grant to assess the health of furbearers in Northeast states. This work builds on the body of knowledge gathered on rodenticides and lead in fishers. State biologists expressed interest in focusing on gray foxes because of declining populations across much of the region. To ensure an adequate sample size and assess trends over time, fishers were also included as study animals. Over the next year, states will submit carcasses and samples for a suite of diagnostic tests and histopathology examination to determine factors that may influence survival, reproduction, and resilience.