Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - This Oct. 8, 2015 remote camera file photo provided by the Center for Biological Diversity shows a rare coastal Pacific ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – A federal court ruled on Sunday, Aug. 9, that the U.S. Forest Service has failed to protect threatened coastal martens, furry ferret-sized carnivores in the weasel family, from ...

Oregon State University researchers have painted a clearer picture of the coastal marten, a secretive, ferret-sized forest carnivore renowned for its cuteness but nearly driven to extinction by human ...

Only a few hundred coastal martens exist. Their range spans from Cape Perpetua in Oregon to Trinidad on California’s north coast. Researchers are worried that a single catastrophe could send the ...

There are fewer than 200 of the beady-eyed and bushy-tailed Humboldt marten in Oregon. But conservation groups are hoping that number will rise in light of new restrictions on trapping. The Oregon ...

Pacific martens, which resemble a cross between a fox and a mink, are often associated with mature forests that provide their unique needs for denning, resting, and efficient hunting. However, a small ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - 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 ...