Then one day, we got a tip about a location that might allow us to see the half-pint predator, so we took off in search of the pine marten or otherwise called the American marten (Martes americana).

Extensive trapping of this valuable furbearer, once known at the American sable, and deforestation extirpated the marten in the southern part of the range and much of the Northeast. Since 1936, when ...

The Humboldt martens in coastal northwestern California are on the smaller end of the American marten size range, with an average weight of 889 grams for males and 598 grams for females. These martens ...