Sweet-faced and inquisitive, northern Minnesota’s pine martens (also known as American martens) rank among the state’s more ...

While Minnesota does not have an official state ... The American black bear is New Mexico's state mammal. The famous Smokey Bear was a real black bear found injured after a forest fire in New ...

For now, we don’t know if this was an isolated individual blown north in a storm, or if this species has indeed expanded its range into Minnesota.” Mammal species new to the state are ...