Tenacious, mysterious and maybe endangered — a wolverine roams the West

[Bigshooter]

http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-sej-wolverine-20160629-snap-story.html

[nwwanderer]

A good demonstration of how little we know about most wildlife, thanks for the post

[Kit Carson]

Thanks for sharing. Very interesting article.
Crazy how the rancher called the biologists and it ended up being the M56 wolverine that he shot ..
Must have been one of the only calls/alerts the biologists got (other than from their own traps)

[JLS]

Wolverines are fascinating.  One was sighted north of Inverness, MT a couple of years ago.  While I understand a desire to protect your livelihood, I also find it a little sad that the first reaction is to shoot the wolverine.

[Kit Carson]

Not sure if he knew what it was before shooting...

[JakeLand]

Well growing up on working cattle farms anything that messed with our living got swift justice plain and simple it's no different from coyotes, wolves or prairie dogs for that Matter a calf is $1,000 right from the beginning and more as it gets older 

[KFhunter]

very interesting thanks for sharing

[hollymaster]

M56 sure was a traveler. 

[TVHunts]

That was a great read, thanks for posting it. 

[DOUBLELUNG]

They are amazing.  When I worked in Wyoming, there were believed to be a small handful in the state.  Two old ranchers told me about seeing one in antelope country in the 1940s, and as a learned professional biologist I immediately assumed they had seen a muddy badger.  Less than a month later, an adult male turned up in a fenceline coyote snare north of Cheyenne in short grass prairie habitat.  That is about 400 miles from the nearest known habitat as the crow flies, and about 90 miles further south and east than where Labin and Jack had seen the wolverine in the 40s.  I began to think they had probably seen a wolverine.

Two years later, in the middle of winter, near Kaycee Wyoming, a rancher called about an animal that had killed 9 or so sheep in his winter pasture - still 300 miles or so from wolverine habitat.  In a neat twist of fate, USDA had an employee who had transferred to Wyoming from Alaska, where he'd previously worked wolverine depredations on domestic sheep.  He was able to confirm the kills as wolverine.  No idea where that one went from there. 

Satellite transmitters are revealing more about their movements - but they are about as mysterious a mid-sized wild critter as any in North America.   

[predatorpro]

They are in the entiat....have been for a few years now

[UBA]

They are in the entiat....have been for a few years now

Seen that one a few years ago. I think the pics are still hanging at the ranger station. Wonder where it went after the fire.

[predatorpro]

They are in the entiat....have been for a few years now

Seen that one a few years ago. I think the pics are still hanging at the ranger station. Wonder where it went after the fire.

Not sure! I know they had atleast a few collared up there...I'll see what I can't find out! I know a guy! Lol

[JakeLand]

Just read a article that 3 were trapped and collared in the Stevens pass area  in I believe 2013