Fewer than 200 of the martens survive in the state’s coastal forests. The new trapping guidelines ban all marten trapping west of the Interstate 5 corridor. The rules also ban all commercial and ...

Formerly, the marten inhabited the forest regions of Canada,Alaska, the Northern half of the U.S. and along the major mountain ranges to central California, New Mexico, and West Virginia. Extensive ...

Cornell University ecologists and colleagues have developed a new model that captures the abundance of wildlife species in a region and offers new insights into animals’ interactions with each other ...

Fewer than 200 of the martens survive in the state’s coastal forests. The new trapping guidelines ban all marten trapping west of the Interstate 5 corridor. The rules also ban all commercial and ...

Marten populations declined rapidly in the late 1800s and early 1900s because of habitat loss and unregulated trapping. DEC closed marten trapping from 1936–78 to allow populations to recover.