DENVER ” A decade-old ban on trapping wildlife in Colorado is being undermined by a new state regulation allowing box traps to capture pine martens and mink, according to a wildlife advocacy group ...

Weighing little more than an apple, the marten has a pointy face with a small button nose, curious eyes and kitty-like ears. Covered in soft, brown fur with a pale yellow patch on the throat, it ...

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 — ...

WEST FARGO – My first game warden station was in Bottineau, North Dakota. Having spent time there in junior college, the uniqueness of the Turtle Mountains’ fish, wildlife and habitat was part of the ...

Mark Linnell / U.S. Forest Service California decided to protect the rare Humboldt marten Thursday under the state Endangered Species Act. The mink-like animal only exists in four isolated populations ...

HOQUIAM, WA Hoquiam police said the 33-year-old man had the dead animal with him when he went to the other man's apartment looking for his girlfriend Monday. The victim told police that he was struck ...

The Humboldt marten is in line to get new protections in Oregon. State fish and wildlife officials signed a court settlement Wednesday that calls for new rule-making to ban trapping of this imperiled, ...

I grew up trapping muskrat in western New York state in the small rural community of Bolivar. I learned to trap from school mates, setting No. 110 conibears in a swamp near town. The first swamp I ...

One of the treats of a snowy winter is wandering around looking for animal tracks. When I counted up the species for which we’ve found tracks, I saw that one taxonomic family was disproportionately ...