Have you ever seen a wolverine in the Lower 48?

[Acharenio]

i saw one this summer at Glacier National park.

 

[Schoolhousegrizz]

There was one a few years ago running around the city in northern Utah.

 

[Schoolhousegrizz]

There was one a few years ago running around the city in northern Utah.

'Super rare' wolverine spotted in Utah again, this time in West Layton neighborhood

With only a handful of wolverine sightings in Utah since 1979, including an animal hit by a car and animal tracks, another elusive predator sighting was reported Thursday, this one in a West Layton neighborhood.

kutv.com

 

[Olsolitaire1]

I have not seen one but, Colorado yes 2009. I also remember seeing a trail cam from Northern Colorado a few years ago of one.

Wild Colorado: Colorado’s lonely wolverine

Eric Odell, a Colorado Division of Wildlife species conservation coordinator, has been keeping tabs on an unlikely Colorado Rockies species - the wolverine. The wolverine populations in Colorado, so

www.summitdaily.com

Do Wolverines Live in Colorado?

Is Colorado home to wolverines? Not usually, but some say things are changing. While there have been a few unverified sightings over the years, there has only been one documented wolverine found in Colorado in the last one hundred years.

www.uncovercolorado.com

 

[tyler155]

Central Idaho about 8 years ago. Have video of it walking around high mountain lake.

 

[Schoolhousegrizz]

Central Idaho about 8 years ago. Have video of it walking around high mountain lake.

Would love to see the video!

 

[Team4LongGun]

I saw one a few weeks ago, just a few miles from my place. Cool animals for sure.

Also seen one in Idaho-lolo.

 

[wyogoat]

More than likely not. The last wolverine seen in Colorado was in 1919. More than likely you saw a big marmot. Plus the likelihood of seeing one on or that close to the front range is a joke.


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[wyogoat]

Sorry. I don’t remember you being there and hard to confuse a marmot for a wolverine. I know what I saw.
And this article seems to disagree with your research.
https://cpw.state.co.us/learn/Pages/Wolverine.aspx#:~:text=Colorado's%20high%20elevation%20and%20rugged,wolverine%20into%20northcentral%E2%80%8B%20Colorado.

 

[Randy11]

I have not seen one but my buddy took a picture of one on the edge of the eagle cap wilderness in Oregon. 2 years ago View attachment 631757

I'm far from an expert, but what about that critter makes you guys think wolverine and not fisher?

 

[kodyshriver]

I'm far from an expert, but what about that critter makes you guys think wolverine and not fisher?

I’m not an expert either, but we don’t have Fishers in the Eagle Caps, however we do have wolverines.

Wolverine | Oregon Department of Fish & Wildlife

myodfw.com

 

[Schoolhousegrizz]

I thought I also may have saw one in the mountains above Henry's Lake in idaho. I know they released one up there, they even have a wolverine trap not too far from where I thought I saw it. However I cannot confirm it, my wife and mom swear it was a wolverine.

 

[Blockcaver]

I had a confirmed wolverine sighting in CO in 1979. Wolverine did two passes by my buddy's bear bait located 10 yards or so from me. l was bowhunting outside of Parshall, CO (Grand Co) up toward the lookout tower on the second to last evening of spring bear season, (Friday, June 29). He never did eat, just sniff around the bait a bit, then went down the hill, then walked past going uphill out of sight.

I had hurried into the bait as it was after work and I wanted to get there asap. No camera along, just evening snacks after a long day of work for me. Anyway, Jim Halfpenny, Colorado Division of Wildlife biologist took my written report, visited the bait site with my buddy, etc. He wrote it up as a confirmed wolverine sighting. A CDW (now Parks and Wildlife) soft cover book publication about wildlife in CO later listed it as a confirmed sighting. (I do not have a copy of that book, maybe someone else does, probably was a publication from the 1980s or 1990s?).

As per no confirmed sightings in CO since 1919...BS, some author or even CDW employee didn't do their homework. If it happened prior to the internet, they probably do not know about it!

And as per wolverines I've seen them in Alaska (North slope of Brooks Range where a single wolverine ran a sow grizzly and her two year old cub off a caribou carcass) ) and northern BC since that time. I worked with marmots right outside my 10,300' elevation office parking lot for 30 years in CO. I've seen a ton of pine martins etc. No doubt about it being a CO wolverine.

 

[turbobrick]

Absolutely.

 

[cnelk]

I saw a wolverine in the Never Summer Range in N Colorado about 20 years ago.

Definitely not a marmot

 

[mtnwrunner]

I've seen 3 and currently know where one is living. Neat creatures.

Randy

 

[StupidLightweight]

I consider myself very lucky. I've seen two, but only one was in Lower 48. The first was in the WA Cascades about 2010. The year before, my friends claimed to have seen one, and I called BS. Wolverines weren't even confirmed in the state at that point. The next year, I spotted one just off the trail maybe a half-mile from where they saw theirs. Incredible animals. The next wolverines I saw was in southern BC on a goat hunt in 2018. The guide spotted him climbing a steep ridge and lost it with excitement. He said, "You have no idea how rare this is." Oddly enough, he said they travel in a straight line, going up or over anything in their path. Sure enough, as we watched this bugger climb 2,000 or so feet, he never deviated from that line. Not once.

 

[Crowmangler]

I just saw one stomp on a buckeye

 

[squid-freshprints]

I watched a pair hunting the same turkeys as me about 10 years ago in the Pagosa area. Close enough to spit on and unfriendly, well past 1919 or whatever.

 

[alecvg]

Saw one in the North Cascades, saw tracks of one this fall here in Montana.