It’s understandable if you’ve never heard of the coastal marten. These secretive—but adorable—woodland carnivores nearly went extinct. Fortunately, these ferret-sized mammals are making a slow ...

The American marten is a member of the weasel family. While widely present in the northeast at one time, it disappeared from Pennsylvania more than 120 years ago. A plan to bring the American marten — ...

After talking about two birds that are generally unmistakable, I wanted to switch gears this week and take a closer look at a mammal that seems to lead to more annual misidentifications than any other ...

My first game warden station was in Bottineau. Having spent time there in junior college, the uniqueness of the Turtle Mountain’s fish, wildlife and habitat was part of the outdoors DNA which gave ...

Marten are small mammals, related to weasels, ferrets and mink. "In conjunction with our other work on carnivore microbiomes, this finding tells us the microbial ecosystems in carnivore guts can vary ...