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The American marten [1] (Martes americana), also known as the American pine marten, is a species of North American mammal, a member of the family Mustelidae. The species is sometimes referred to as simply the pine marten .
A marten is a weasel-like mammal in the genus Martes within the subfamily Guloninae, in the family Mustelidae.They have bushy tails and large paws with partially retractile claws.
Six extant mustelid genera left-to-right, top-to-bottom: Martes, Meles, Lutra, Gulo, Mustela, and Mellivora Mustelidae is a family of mammals in the order Carnivora, which includes weasels, badgers, otters, ferrets, martens, minks, and wolverines, and many other extant and extinct genera.
The American marten is the only mammal on the state list of endangered species (the gray wolf if federally listed as endangered). The marten has been the focus of several reintroduction efforts ...
A $2 million project would have released 300 martens into the wild in the Northern Tier to create a stable population.
This excludes feral domesticated species such as feral cats and dogs. Several species recently lived wild in Pennsylvania, but are now extirpated (locally, but not globally, extinct). They are the marsh rice rat ( Oryzomys palustris ), eastern wolf ( Canis lycaon ), American marten ( Martes americana ), wolverine ( Gulo gulo ), cougar ( Puma ...
A cat-like creature in Oregon's coastal forests that's so rare it was once thought to be extinct can no longer be hunted, trapped or collected as roadkill under new rules that could go into effect ...
It is sometimes referred to as a fisher cat, although it is not a cat. [ 3 ] The fisher is closely related to, but larger than, the American marten ( Martes americana ) and Pacific marten ( Martes caurina ).