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	Marten - LoveToKnow 1911
		MARTEN,' a name originally belonging to the pine-marten (Mustela martes), but now applied to all members of the same ' By all old authors, as Ray, Pennant, Shaw and Fleming, the word is written "Martin," but this form of spelling is now generally reserved for the bird (see Martin).
		Martens are limited to the northern hemisphere, ranging throughout the greater part of the northern temperate regions of both Old and New Worlds, and southwards in America to 35° N. lat., while in Asia one species is met with in Java.
		The pekan or Pennant's marten, also called fisher marten, though there appears to be nothing in its habits to justify the appellation, is the largest of the group, the head and body measuring from 24 to 30 in., and the tail 14 to 18 in.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Marten (1349 words)

	Marten Wild Things Unlimited Rare Carnivores
		Pine martens are 21 to 26 inches in length, including the long, bushy tail and weigh 1.5 to 2.75 pounds.
		Tracks of the pine marten reveal five toes in a plantigrade foot averaging 1.5 to 2.5 inches in with by 3 to 4 inches in length.
		Martens are pretty solitary animals except during the breeding season when plantar glands on their hind feet increase secretions and a fl, tarry substance of unknown origin signal their intent to mate.
	home.mcn.net /~wtu/marten.html (547 words)

	Trees for Life - Species profile: Pine marten
		The pine marten has a Palearctic distribution: its geographic range extends from western Siberia across Russia and Europe to Scotland and Ireland, and from the northern limit of the boreal or coniferous forest in the north to the Mediterranean and the Caucasus region in the south.
		The fur on the pine marten's paws is darker brown in colour, and the pads on the undersides of its feet are covered with fur in winter.
		Martens are the only members of the mustelid family to have semi-retractable claws, and these give it considerable proficiency in climbing trees, while at the same time enabling it to run quickly on the ground.
	www.treesforlife.org.uk /tfl.pinemarten.html (1431 words)

	Partnership for Action Against Wildlife Crime - Pine Marten
		Pine martens will jump between the branches of trees, and are stopped from slipping when it is icy by the hair on the soles of their feet.
		Pine martens are solitary animals and usually hunt alone at night, sleeping in one of their dens during the day.
		Pine martens were close to extinction at the beginning of the 20th centuary due to humans.
	www.snh.org.uk /wildlifecrimeschools/index.asp?tm=72 (388 words)

	Pine Marten (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Pine martens are as big as an average house cat and have a long slim body.
		Pine martens are small, rare members of the weasel family often confused with two other weasels: fishers and stone martens.
		Pine martens are found in the Scottish Highlands and Grampian, with isolated populations in southern Scotland.
	www.cdli.ca /CITE/marten.htm (743 words)

	American Marten: Nature Snapshots from Minnesota DNR: Minnesota DNR
		The American (or pine) marten is a predator (meat eater) species that belongs to the weasel family.
		Martens are pregnant for about nine months, but the fetus only develops during the last two months.
		Martens often visit bird feeders during winter to hunt the birds that visit the feeders.
	www.dnr.state.mn.us /snapshots/mammals/americanmarten.html (374 words)

	EEK! - Critter Corner - Pine Marten
		Pine martens are small, rare members of the weasel family often confused with two other weasels that live in Wisconsin: fishers and stone martens.
		Pine martens are on the move and will cover their entire territory every 8-10 days as they hunt.
		Pine martens are omnivores (they eat both plants and animals), feeding on mostly small rodents.
	www.dnr.state.wi.us /org/caer/ce/eek/critter/mammal/pinemarten.htm (923 words)

	Marten or Pine Marten - The Martens of British Columbia, Canada - Martens in BC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Description - The marten, or pine marten, is a weasel like animal that is dark brown to blond in colour with a paler head and underparts.
		Generally the marten has a larger track and in winter the feet are covered in hair which obscures the five toe pads.
		The trail of the marten will show the over-lapping of the front and hind feet and while running a series of four prints in a rough line, a space then the series of four prints is characteristic.
	www.bcadventure.com /adventure/wilderness/animals/marten.htm (236 words)

	NTA - Marten
		Martens are currently present in 17 states and harvested by trapping in 10 states.
		Marten mate in July in most regions and the gestation period varies from 220 to 275 days because implantation is delayed.
		Marten use the same type of habitat required by red squirrels and red squirrels appear to be an important part of the winter diet of marten in many areas.
	www.nationaltrappers.com /marten.html (1187 words)

	The MAIN RIVER "Great Canadian Rivers"
		The Newfoundland pine marten is an elusive animal.
		A Newfoundland Pine Martin Recovery Team was established in 1990, with the goal of restoring the island's marten population to a point where it is no longer considered threatened with extinction.
		The pine marten is omnivorous, feeding on small mammals, birds, amphibians, reptiles, carrion, fruits, nuts and insects.
	www.greatcanadianrivers.com /rivers/main/species-home.html (1049 words)

	BBC - Science & Nature - Wildfacts - Pine marten, baum marten, sweet marten
		Pine martens were once considered to be vermin and were persecuted throughout the 17th century.
		Pine martens have dark brown fur, with a yellow patch on the chest and neck.
		Pine martens are excellent climbers, and climb with agility in a squirrel-like manner from tree to tree.
	www.bbc.co.uk /nature/wildfacts/factfiles/197.shtml (318 words)

	American Marten
		The American marten is sometimes referred to as a pine marten due to the similarities shared with their European pine marten relatives.
		Although the female marten's eggs are fertilized by mid-summer, they don't fasten to the wall of her uterus until January or February.
		Martens were reintroduced into northeastern Wisconsin between 1975 and 1983 and into northwestern Wisconsin between 1987 and 1990.
	www.dnr.state.wi.us /org/land/er/factsheets/mammals/Marten.htm (1860 words)

	East Clare Green Party - Call for Pine Marten cull is dangerous and would be futile
		Wiley's assertion that pine martens are out of control have no research to substantiate it, his call for a cull is ill-informed and dangerous, as it could cause people to take the law into their own hands.
		With regard to attacks by predators such as the pine marten on enclosures which result in the death of birds, this is almost always due to poorly designed and maintained enclosures that fail to protect their stock.
		Pine Martens are also quite short lived (5 or 6 years) and breed only once a year with an average of 3 young (kits).
	homepage.eircom.net /~eastclaregreens/localnews/pine_marten_cull.htm (757 words)

	Pine Marten
		Distribution: in the British Isles, the pine marten is mainly confined to remote areas of Scotland, Wales, the Lake District and Irish Republic; some isolated populations exist in eastern and south-western parts of England.
		Martens, however, obtain most of their food on the ground, and they hunt for small mammals, birds, insects, berries, birds' eggs and carrion.
		Martens are rarely seen in daylight; they sleep in dens hidden in a crevice among rocks or in hollows under tree roots.
	www.yptenc.org.uk /docs/factsheets/animal_facts/pinemarten.html (608 words)

	Baseline and initial monitoring assessment of Martes americana, the Pine Marten, at Heavenly Ski Resort, Lake Tahoe
		While these issues were addressed in terms of marten populations throughout their greater geographic range, there is much to be learned about local populations in the Sierra Nevada of Nevada and California in each and all of these categories.
		Impacts to marten at ski resorts are unknown from both individual animal and population perspectives.
		The objective of this project is to document continued marten occurrence at Heavenly and to provide an initial analysis of the status of marten and quantify their use of the resort landscape compared to adjacent undeveloped forested lands.
	www.dees.dri.edu /Projects/cablk_marten.htm (736 words)

	www.myspace.com/pinemarten
		The marten is related to a group of animals known as the Mustelid family which includes otter, skunk, mink and weasel.
		Marten prefer to live in undisturbed mature coniferous or mixed forest, with large evergreens and scattered birch and other hardwood trees.
		Marten are carnivores, or meat-eaters, whose main foods are small animals such as meadow voles, shrews, snowshoe hare, red squirrel and birds.
	www.myspace.com /pinemarten (677 words)

	Hinterland Who's Who - Marten
		Marten hunt at all times of the day in spring and summer and are most active at daybreak and dusk.
		Martens are agile climbers but take almost all their prey on the ground.
		This does not mean that martens are now extremely abundant, but more likely that as forests have become increasingly accessible because of more roads and improved bush vehicles, marten are now regularly trapped in areas that were previously harder to reach.
	www.hww.ca /hww2.asp?id=92 (1644 words)

	Canku Ota - December 28, 2002 - Rabbit and the Moon Man
		Pine martens have long, bushy tails that are one-third of their total length.
		The size of a male pine marten's territory is 5-10 square miles, while a female's may range in size from 1-5 square miles.
		Pine martens generally cover their entire territory every 8-10 days as they hunt.
	www.turtletrack.org /Issues02/Co12282002/CO_12282002_Rabbit_Moon.htm (1757 words)

	Newfoundland Pine Marten
		Marten are most common in the lower portion of the shaded area near Little Grand Lake.
		The team's goal is to develop and implement a plan to restore the marten population on the island portion of the province, to a point where it is no longer considered threatened.
		In addition, the accidental capturing of marten in traps and snares set for other animals, such as rabbits, mink, fox and lynx, may be limiting their spread into other areas.
	www.env.gov.nl.ca /snp/AnimalCare/EndSpecies/PineMarten/PineMarten.htm (1862 words)

	Pine Marten - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Pine Marten (Martes martes) is an animal in the weasel family, native to Northern Europe.
		Martens are prized for their very fine fur, and loss of habitat leading to fragmentation, persecution by gamekeepers, human disturbance, illegal poisoning and shooting have declined the Pine Marten population considerably.
		In Finland, the dark-furred European pine marten is known as a nokia.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pine_Marten (517 words)

	The Pine Marten in North-East Yorkshire?
		Pine martens are members of the weasel or mustelid family of mammals, and are one of our largest native carnivores.
		The pine marten in Britain today, however, is confined to the Scottish Highlands, Dumfries, and with remnant populations in the Lake District, Yorkshire and North Wales.
		The last definite records of a pine marten from this area are of one shot in 1983 near the Greenhow plantation, another killed on a road nearby in 1972 and a sighting in 1996.
	www.ryenats.org.uk /marten02.htm (1761 words)

	Pine Marten Research June
		American marten are traditionally associated with mature conifer forests characterized by an abundance of coarse woody debris including snags, stumps and logs, and dense overstory.
		The marten was immobilized with ketamine hydrochloride at a dose of [dose] and required X doses to maintain sedation.
		This suggests that “for a 1-kg animal, martens are slow to recover from population-level impacts (Buskirk and Ruggiero, 1994).” The marten’s mortality in the weaning period may reduce the potential for her kit’s survival.
	www.wmrs.edu /siper-2002/STF_MAY/PINE_MRTN.HTM (3979 words)

	Pine marten
		We've seen one, and in one instance, two, pine martens in the garden during daylight a couple of times, but mostly these are animals of the evening.
		One is that they eat almost everything from berries to deer carrion (including one recording of a pine marten attacking a sheep).
		About the size of a small domestic cat, the pine marten is also rather cat-like in its appearance and movements; indeed it was often called the 'marten cat' in the past".
	www.auspiciousdragon.net /floraandfauna/wildlifepages/pinemarten.html (344 words)

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		Marten are often used as an indicator species due to this dependence on mature forest.
		While the marten is about the same size as a mink, the latter is seldom found far from water and is not much of a climber.
		I have seen no reference to slides in the literature on marten (though their distant cousin, the river otter, is known to use slides).
	dirttime.ws /Notebook/PineMarten.htm (302 words)

	The Militant Pine Marten
		The Pine Marten associates with a motley collection of these rogues, and although they are generally sympathetic to itsâ opposition to the scheme, they do tend to think that at the end of the day, theyâre not actually affected by all this.
		The Militant Pine Marten happens to be in a position to claim authoritatively that it is perfectly possible to have two âfatherlandsâ, to have two cultures, to be not without solid roots, but to have two sets of them, each as strong as the other.
		The European pine marten (Martes Martes) is distributed through most portions of continental Eurasia from western Europe in the west to western Siberia in the east, from the northern edge of coniferous forest in the north to Asia Minor in the south.
	militantpinemarten.blogspot.com (6490 words)

	Pine Marten - Species Fact Files
		The pine marten belongs to the same group of animals as the stoats, weasels, mink, polecat, otter and badger.
		The pine marten was once found throughout Britain, with the exception of most islands, but is now confined to a few areas of Ireland, Wales and England, with the main stronghold being in Scotland.
		Pine martens make their dens in any suitable cavity, from holes in trees, large nestboxes and cottage attics to cavities under rocks, tree roots, etc. Like some other mustelids, such as polecats, pine martens have induced ovulation.
	www.photo-tech.co.uk /wildlife_pine_marten.html (290 words)

	The Newfoundland Marten
		Newfoundland Marten, are a genetically distinct population of the more widely distributed American Marten, Martes Americana Atrata.
		The Newfoundland Marten is one of only fourteen native land mammals on this island.
		The population of marten on the island of Newfoundland was declared endangered by COSEWIC (The Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada) in 1996.
	www.newfoundlandmarten.com (102 words)

	The Waabizheshi (pine marten) project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		On this particular day, the trapped marten was “Pale-face,” a pine marten frequently captured on the Chequamegon side of the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest and named because of the light-colored fur on his head and face.
		In fact, the pine marten, once extirpated in Wisconsin as a result of over harvest and habitat loss, was reintroduced in the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest (CNF) by the late Dr. Ray Anderson in a collaborative effort between the USFS, the state of Wisconsin, and UW-Stevens Point.
		In order to determine the amount of energy used by the animals, captured martens are immobilized, a blood sample is drawn, and the animal is injected with “double-labeled” water, or water in which the oxygen atoms are marked.
	www.glifwc.org /pub/spring02/waabizheshi.htm (1124 words)

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