The feet, legs, and tail are brown. Irregular orange, buffy orange, or cream colored patched on the throat and chest distinguish marten from other members of the weasel family. Overall length is 51-67 ...

Pine martens are members of the Mustelidae (weasel) family and are directly related to other critters such as the badger, otter, ferret, mink, fisher and wolverine. It’s sometimes confused with ...

Stealthy, cat-sized forest carnivores in the weasel family, coastal martens — aka Humboldt martens — are so rare that they were thought extinct until rediscovered in 1996. Now, due to extensive ...

Humboldt martens are elusive, cat-sized members of the weasel family. Once common in coastal forests in Northern California and Oregon, the animals were nearly wiped out by logging and widespread ...

Fishers and martens are members of the weasel family, and both species are recovering from severe historical declines in the region. Fishers weigh 3 to 13 pounds, while American marten weigh 1 ½ ...

Pine martens – described by wildlife experts as cat-sized, tree-climbing members of the weasel family – went extinct in the ...

berries and insects Pine martens are excellent tree-climbers and are members of the weasel family. They became extinct in the South West more than 100 years ago after the loss of their woodland ...

Having just returned from three weeks in Yellowstone leading photo tours and workshops, I am tempted to write more about the several encounters I had with the large charismatic predator, the gray ...