The mammals of the Superior National Forest are common (short-tailed shrew, pygmy shrew, masked shrew, snowshoe hare, meadow vole, red-backed vole, Eastern chipmunk, red squirrel, northern flying squirrel, deer mouse, beaver, muskrat, red fox, mink, striped skunk, white-tailed deer, moose), fairly common (Arctic shrew, northern water shrew, little brown bat, meadow jumping mouse, woodland jumping mouse, porcupine, gray wolf, black bear, bobcat, fisher, river otter, short-tailed weasel, woodchuck), rare (star-nosed mole, Keen's bat, silver-haired bat, red bat, hoary bat, cottontail rabbit, least chipmunk, gray squirrel, Norway rat, coyote, raccoon, pine marten, least weasel, long-tailed weasel, lynx), and very rare (Franklin's ground squirrel, thirteen-lined ground squirrel, gray fox, cougar, badger).