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Re: marten habitat/ where??? [Re: ] #319379
09/01/07 04:09 PM
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Not just MN. They have some in Wisconsin .

Good population in lots of the Northern States near the Canadian Border. Even Colorado has a population !

Not going to find the Marten in the prarie though. They thrive in heavy cover with mixed conifers.

Here is Maddog47 with a nice MN Marten !

Woops !! Wrong picture ! Here you go.

And Scott W with a catch.

Re: marten habitat/ where??? [Re: ] #319380
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I'm pretty sure they are mostly in the NE coniferous forest parat of Mn. I've heard they are pretty common in the duluth area. There are some other guys who know much more about them on here maybe they will chime in.


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Re: marten habitat/ where??? [Re: ] #319382
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Here is some of the country we trap.

My daughter with a her days catch,
back in Winter of 95.

Re: marten habitat/ where??? [Re: ] #319390
09/01/07 04:21 PM
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I have caught them as far south as Aitkin county in north central MN.


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Re: marten habitat/ where??? [Re: 160user] #319512
09/01/07 06:27 PM
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there was a post not long ago on minnesota furbearer harvest statistics. it showed marten, fisher, & bobcat harvest. marten were harvested in 14 different counties in minnesota, with the 4 upper NE counties taking 95% of the catch.


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Re: marten habitat/ where??? [Re: MartenMan] #319527
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I have seen Marten as far south as the St Croix State Forest.

I have heard reports of a experienced deer hunter seeing a Marten in Southern Aitkin County. He was hunting a big swamp with heavy spruce and pine cover.

Re: marten habitat/ where??? [Re: ] #319628
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according to the DNR harvest report, 13 marten were harvested last year in Aitkin County, and 2 in Kanabec County, just south of Aitkin.


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Re: marten habitat/ where??? [Re: ] #319746
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Heres a few pics of the counrty that I trap marten and fisher in.


Pic of me makeing a cubby

Pic of a cubby after a snowfall and a catch

A nice female fisher from the pic above

Another loc pic

I try to put all my sets in where something chaneges....pines to popler....Pines to swamp....pencle popler to mature popler...you get the Idea.



Re: marten habitat/ where??? [Re: hunter82] #319754
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What I don't understand is why you guys make your sets on the ground?


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Re: marten habitat/ where??? [Re: white17] #319758
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Marten master ^


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Re: marten habitat/ where??? [Re: white17] #319759
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Are season is only 9 days long and we dont get ten feet of snow like you do:)



Re: marten habitat/ where??? [Re: hunter82] #319770
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That is a short season for sure. My dislike for ground sets is that the critters can get dirty, especially in low snow conditions and the voles and shrews can easily get to them if they are expired. Do you encounter that problem?


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Re: marten habitat/ where??? [Re: white17] #319776
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Havent yet(crossing my fingers). Our season just got changed this year from 2 weeks down to nine days.Dont realy like it but I'll have to live with it.Just wish we had the seasons like you do up there and could catch that many in a season.We get 5 marten or 5 fisher or 5 combined for our limit.



Re: marten habitat/ where??? [Re: white17] #319779
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well you do get some chewing on occasion, but i usually check every other day so its not an issue really. the fisher are more eager to enter the ground sets in my opinion and id rather catch them anyway and since our limit is 5 combined mostly ground sets are how im setting.

Re: marten habitat/ where??? [Re: hunter82] #319781
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Well I guess you can't run too many traps then in fear of going over the limit or combination limit. Too bad about the season length but lets hope it's for the good of the resource and someday you'll have a longer season because of this.


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Re: marten habitat/ where??? [Re: white17] #319782
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hmmmmm......too bad the shortened season wasnt due to some sort of scientific data or even a little common sense......we are covered up with the lil buggers.

Re: marten habitat/ where??? [Re: white17] #319849
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 Originally Posted By: white17
That is a short season for sure. My dislike for ground sets is that the critters can get dirty, especially in low snow conditions and the voles and shrews can easily get to them if they are expired. Do you encounter that problem?


In my experience a Marten and or Fisher is more likely to work a set on the ground. I have seen one Marten suffer damage out of the past 75 taken by our party. Not a big concern !

Re: marten habitat/ where??? [Re: ] #319892
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Here some Mn marten pics and locations. [img][/img] [img][/img] [img][/img]

Re: marten habitat/ where??? [Re: Tim Bauer] #319914
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Hopefully some of the limited trapping I will get to do this year during medical school will be for marten in the Two Harbors area. Can I expect to find some animals there? Who has that MN harvest data? I asked someone to e-mail it to me but never got it. I would still like it, PM me if you can shoot me an e-mail with it.

Do most of you guys use 120s. I have 13 wooden box cubbies for 120s and another dozen for 160s. Will the 160s be good on marten if I use coni-pans (wood)? How many traps do you think is reasonable to run with the limit but short season? Would a dozen or so be too many, not enough? I will probably have between 200-400 acres to trap hopefully.

Re: marten habitat/ where??? [Re: johnsd16] #319987
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Nothing wrong with the 120 or 160 for a Marten trap. The 160 with a pan would be a better choice if you tangle with a Fisher. I use both traps every year.

One dozen is not to many in fact I would run as many as you have time for. Lots of Federal and State land in that area. You should try to run more ground then 400 acres. Lots of Weasels in that country also do not pass up that opportunity.

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