California has 164 Pacific marten records since 2000, and every one is a research-grade iNaturalist observation; 90 of them are also shared to GBIF. That puts it 122nd of 233 California mammals by record count, in the middle third, a measure of how often people photograph martens rather than how many there are.
August is the busiest month, with 37 records, and late summer stands out as a whole, though martens turn up in every month, winter included. Yosemite, Lassen Volcanic, and the Sequoia and Kings Canyon parks are the most often named sites, places where summer visitors carry cameras into marten country.
California holds about a tenth of the species’ US records, with Colorado holding the most.
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