pine marten

[Longspring]

Those are both martens, the pale one is a young one and the dark one is an adult. Fishers are darker and bigger their favorite prey is porkypine . Marten mainly eat squirrles and birds eggs.

There is one bigger weasel and he is the wolverine, he is fearless eats anything he wants. Takes kills away from Mt. lions, wolves ect. One has been spotted in the Sierra's for a couple of years now, not far from where these martens came from. Fish and Game collected some scat and hair last year, and the DNA said he came from Idaho.

There are 2 bigger weasels Tom . You are forgetting one .

[Tom A]

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[livetohunt]

We are not short on Badger's in Northern Cal if you know where to look got a ranch thats loaded with them. But from what I here they are not worth much are they?

[Powder River Walker]

Nothing is worth skinning a badger.

[Longspring]

I don't think they are that bad . Just got to know how to do it . We get up to $60 for some of ours prime (this month and next ) but most go for 15-25 .There are fur badgers and hair badgers. Big difference in the $ they bring . I use to case mine . Now I board them like a beaver and they are easier to flesh , sell and tan that way. I nail a bunch in the pivot irrigation fields every year for the farmers for a few bucks , but I love winter setting up here . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0IRcenmOOE

[Longspring]

This is how I do it .

[foxcat]

"not a fisher...its a marten"...well is it a fisher marten? lots of them up here in northern cali. considered off game but a young dog will catch them. they usually go way high up in a pine or doug fir.

[livetohunt]

Hey Foxcat not sure what you mean? A Fisher is a Fisher and a Marten is a Marten. They are two members of the Mustelid family but not the same. The fisher is closely related to but larger than the American Marten (Martes americana).

[foxcat]

Hey Foxcat not sure what you mean? A Fisher is a Fisher and a Marten is a Marten. They are two members of the Mustelid family but not the same. The fisher is closely related to but larger than the American Marten (Martes americana).

I stand corrected. My whole life i have been calling them fisher martens. googled it and it turns out you are right. a fisher, allthough in the same family as a marten, is not a marten. More often called a fisher cat. I love when i learn something new. thank you for your post.