American marten canadensis"), mountain lion ("Puma concolor"), fisher ("M. pennanti"), wolverine ("Gulo gulo"), grizzly bear ("Ursus arctos horribilis"), American black bear ("U. americanus"), and grey wolf ("C. lupus"). In northeastern Oregon, most predation (67%) occurred between May and August, and no predation occurred between December and February. The fur of the American marten is shiny and luxuriant, resembling that of the closely related sable. At the turn of the twentieth century, the American marten population was depleted due to the fur trade. The Hudson's Bay Company traded in pelts from this species among others. Numerous protection measures and reintroduction efforts have allowed
Marten was typically fashioned into mittens. The marten is still traded locally. The locals place a high value on this pelt, typically trading it for consumable goods. In the Middle Ages, marten pelts were highly valued goods used as a form of payment in Slavonia, the Croatian Littoral, and Dalmatia. The banovac, a coin struck and used between 1235 and 1384, included the image of a marten. This is one of the reasons why the Croatian word for marten, "kuna", is the name of the modern Croatian currency. A marten is depicted on the obverse of the 1-, 2-, and 5-kuna