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#10     Wolverine ,More info:nationalgeographic

The wolverine is a powerful animal that resembles a small bear but is actually the largest member of the weasel family.

Habitat

These tough animals are solitary, and they need a lot of room to roam. Individual wolverines may travel 15 miles in a day in search of food. Because of these habitat requirements, wolverines frequent remote boreal forests, taiga, and tundra in the northern latitudes of Europe, Asia, and North America.

#9 Group wants lethal traps banned in Idaho wolverine habitat,More info:spokesman

BOISE – An environmental group has asked Idaho officials to prosecute a trapper who killed a wolverine and ban lethal traps in areas inhabited by wolverines, but state officials say they will do neither.

The Center for Biological Diversity made the request Tuesday in a letter to Idaho Department of Fish and Game Director Virgil Moore after obtaining some of the agency’s internal documents through a public records request.

The group also sent a copy of the letter to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, which is considering federal protections for wolverines.

Idaho has not allowed a hunting or trapping season for wolverines since 1965.

Documents the Center obtained through a public records request show Fish and Game investigators reported the snare that killed the wolverine in December lacked a mandatory addition called a “stop,” which prevents the snare from tightening all the way and choking to death non-targeted species.

#8     Wolverine – Gulo gulo ,More info:nhptv

 

#7     Judge: Climate change imperils wolverines and feds must act,More info:spokesman

 

#6     ‘The Wolverine State’ without any wolverines,More info:michiganradio

We’ve got the nickname “The Wolverine State,” and of course, the University of Michigan and the Wolverines are forever linked.

But the wolverine never called Michigan home.

The wolverine population in the United States is anything but big. An estimated 250-300 wolverines live in the lower 48 states.

One of the experts who devotes herself to protecting the wolverine is, in fact, a “Wolverine.”

Bridget Fahey is a 1997 graduate of U-M’s School of Natural Resources and Environment.

These days, Fahey is the Endangered Species Chief with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for the mountain prairie region.

#5     The Greatest Wolverine Video, Ever,More info:nature

The Wanderer

Wolverines need a huge area to roam, which is why they are so closely associated with wilderness. Probably the most famous example is a wolverine tagged in the Grand Tetons of Wyoming. Over the course of seven weeks, it moved to eastern Idaho, into the northern part of Yellowstone National Park, back to the Tetons and then on to Montana (where, unfortunately, it was trapped and killed).

That is a total of 550 miles, a huge range. This area includes some of the wildest country in the contiguous United States, but it still ended up running into humanity. This is the great challenge of wolverine conservation. They need a lot of space, and they need viable corridors to move from one large wilderness to the next.

#4        FIVE THINGS WE LEARNED ABOUT WOLVERINES,More info:cbc

Fierce and tenacious, wolverines live in northern boreal forests and up to the Arctic circle, one of the most rugged, inhospitable terrains on earth. Although they look like small bears, they are in fact, the largest member of the weasel family.

Few other animals can match their strength. There have been documented cases of a wolverine bringing down a moose — equivalent to a house cat bringing down a deer. They have no fear, and with their huge paws, they can run on snow, giving them the unique ability to chase prey like snowshoe hare or grouse in any weather.

#3      Why won’t wolverines cross the road?,More info:canadiangeographic

The sight of a road can strike fear into the heart of one of Canada’s toughest predators, according to new research on wolverines in Alberta.

Wolverine biologist Matt Scrafford spent three winters capturing a number of these wily predators in northern Alberta. The wolverines were then fitted with GPS collars and tracked across an area of the province crisscrossed with logging and oil and gas service roads.

Scrafford, who joined Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) Canada in 2017, had a strong hunch that the wolverines would do their best to stay away from the roads, but he sought to create a more detailed picture of how wolverines react to roads. He and his team tracked not only where the wolverines went in their Alberta forest habitat, but also how they behaved in different parts of their extensive territories. To do that, they used the GPS tracking to also calculate how quickly wolverines were moving and how much time they spent in specific areas, especially near roads.

Wolverines require very large areas of habitat to scavenge, hunt, and raise young. When an area has a high density of resource access roads (i.e. for oil and gas exploration, forestry and mining), it becomes risky for wolverines to travel and makes it difficult for the animals to find large, intact areas where the risk is lower. Further, roads can also increase the time it takes a wolverine to navigate through its territory if the animal is inclined to avoid roads.

#2       Wolverine,More info:rockymountainwild

Fearless But Vulnerable

Historically, wolverines ranged south from Canada and Alaska, through the mountainous regions of the West to California, Utah, and Colorado. Today, healthy populations of wolverines inhabit remote, high-elevation areas of the Northern Cascades in Washington, and the northern Rocky Mountains in Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming. It is estimated there are between 250-300 wolverines in the contiguous United States today.

#1       A wolverine is on the loose after escaping from a zoo in Quebec (VIDEO),More info:dailyhive

 

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