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 ...

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 near the coastline running along ...

Oregon officials have voted to ban the trapping of the rare Humboldt marten along the southern coast. The Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission voted 4-3 Friday to set new rules that ban Humboldt marten ...

This story was originally published by Hakai magazine and is republished here by permission. Skye looks official in her orange vest. She takes in her surroundings, gathering details that would escape ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A cat-sized 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 ...

The federal government has assigned protected status to 1.2 million acres of habitat for a threatened subspecies of marten native to the Pacific Northwest. Last week, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife ...

EUGENE, Ore.— The Center for Biological Diversity today asked a federal judge to protect coastal martens from huge, destructive off-road vehicle events set to take place this summer in the Oregon ...

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 ...

A rare coastal Pacific marten in the Oregon Dunes in the Siuslaw National Forest, Ore. The Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission voted to ban the trapping of the extremely rare cat-like creature in ...