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American marten may be important seed dispersers; seeds generally pass through the animal intact, and seeds are likely germinable. One study from Chichagof Island, southeast Alaska, found that Alaska blueberry ( Vaccinium alaskensis ) and oval leaf huckleberry ( V. ovalifolium ) seeds had higher germination rates after passing through the gut ...
Martens are slender, agile animals, which are adapted to living in the taiga, ... American marten Martes americana (Turton, 1806) Seven subspecies. M. a. americana;
The fisher is closely related to, but larger than, the American marten (Martes americana) and Pacific marten (Martes caurina). In some regions, the fisher is known as a pekan, derived from its name in the Abenaki language, or wejack, an Algonquian word (cf. Cree ocêk, Ojibwa ojiig) borrowed by fur traders.
An American marten was captured July 2022 in this camera trap set by Northland College researchers on Madeline Island. It was the first confirmed sighting of the species on the island in more than ...
The Pennsylvania Game Commission is considering an effort to reintroduce American martens and a bobwhite quail conservation area has been approved PA Game Commission takes positive steps with ...
In 1941, George Goodwin, assistant curator of mammals at the American Museum of Natural History, in New York City, found one in Westbrook at the edge of a saltgrass meadow. The animal again went without documented sightings until it was found in 1989 in coastal Middlesex County in 1989. As of 2007, this is the only documented Connecticut ...
The Pennsylvania Game Commission will meet April 12, 13 to consider a reintroduction for American martens as well as finalize hunting seasons.
A white-tailed deer, the state animal of Pennsylvania, in Berwyn, Pennsylvania [1] This list of mammals in Pennsylvania consists of 66 species currently believed to occur wild in the state. This excludes feral domesticated species such as feral cats and dogs.