Critical habitat designated for coastal marten in southern Oregon, northern California

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is designating 1,213,752 acres of critical habitat in northwestern California and southwestern Oregon to protect the coastal distinct population segment (DPS) of the Pacific marten, also known as the coastal or Humboldt marten.The coastal marten has lost over 90 percent of its historical range and currently exists in four small, isolated populations in northern coastal California and southern coastal Oregon. Fewer than 400 Humboldt martens remain. These elusive, cat-sized furry carnivores survive in four highly isolated fragments of the species’ historic habitat. Once common in coastal forests in northern California and southern Oregon, they were decimated by unchecked trapping and logging of their habitat.