The American Marten is a long, slender-bodied weasel about the size of a mink with relatively large, rounded ears, short limbs and a bushy tail.

Extensive trapping of this valuable furbearer, once known at the American sable, and deforestation extirpated the marten in the southern part of the range and much of the Northeast. Since 1936, when ...

mink, fisher and wolverine. It’s sometimes confused with the fisher (Pekania pennanti) which is much larger and darker in color. The American marten is found in northern parts of North America ...