Have you ever seen a wolverine in the Lower 48?

[Cubby]

Last year in Lewistown Mt they have video of one running down the street in front of one of the schools, pretty cool to see

 

[wyodog]

Saw one in SW Wyoming also. about 1982ish.

 

[Hnthrdr]

I saw one on a big boulder flat in the Longs Peak area of Colorado. Watched it for a couple minutes.

Any pics? A co worker swears he saw one north of there but general region…

 

[Jake Larsen]

I’ve seen three in the last couple years in SW Montana. This is the only one I’ve got a photo of. Watched him work along the opposite side of this lake for about 30 minutes.

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[wyogoat]

Any pics? A co worker swears he saw one north of there but general region…

No. This would have been about 2001. Film camera days…

 

[6.5Express]

I saw one last fall while deer hunting in northwest Wyoming and saw another six or so summers ago in the park.

In 2017, my buddy and I were backpack deer hunting in western wyoming and had tracks from one right into our camp in the snow. Came to the base of a tree we had a buck hanging in and left. Weirdest looking track in the snow but confirmed by wgfd biologists as a wolverine.

I saw oneon the north slope of the brooks range in 2015 while caribou hunting as well.

 

[Jason Snyder]

Never seen a wolverine or a lynx. I’d love to see each.

 

[Matt Cashell]

Ive seen a few in Western Montana. One ran right up to me and my buddy and our string of horses. It was pretty cool.

 

[mike.adams.467]

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

Fishers have a long tail.

 

[mtwarden]

One side story about wolverines. We were snowshoeing through the Bob Marshall one winter near the Chinese Wall and came across a set of wolverine tracks headed the way we were. We followed them a bit, but veered off when it looked like an easier way. Before too long, we were back on his tracks. We saw an opportunity for easier going (so we thought) and veered off his tracks again, only to get back on his tracks once more.

This happened several times over the course of a couple of miles. We were off his tracks for quite awhile when came to the pass we needed and again his tracks going through the same pass.

We looked back and could see that his route was a dead straight line from where we first picked up his tracks to this pass. Ours? Was a crookedly line going up/down and around.

Lesson learned, follow the wolverine tracks, he didn’t waste a single step!

 

[JasonWi]

I saw one around 1999-2000 in the Oregon. I wasn’t sure what I was looking at, the whole encounter lasted a few seconds

 

[Schoolhousegrizz]

Saw one in SW Wyoming also. about 1982ish.

Same year and area my dad and I (I was 2) saw the wolverine

 

[Caseknife]

In 2019 my hunting partner and I saw one while hunting in UT but were actually in very southern Idaho when we saw the wolverine. There was a hawk pestering something on the ground about 150 yards off the road. We determined that it was a wolverine, so we took off to get a bit closer. It was totally unaware of us as it was loping from sage to sage looking for lunch. We finally got to about 30 yards and it noticed us, arched his back and growled and then took off into the timber. First for either of us, he is a retired biologist and I have a degree in wildlife management. Will try to dig up a picture.

 

[DawnPatrol]

Nope. Bucket list item right there.

 

[NRA4LIFE]

That is on my bucket list of critters to see in the wild. I've seen most of them.

 

[BackcountryIdaho]

Wolverines to be reintroduced in Colorado

CPW will work with federal land management agencies to determine the public lands where North American wolverines could be released in Colorado.

www.ktvb.com

 

[mtwarden]

Coming to a town near you

 

[jonhans]

It’s on the bucket list. Seen tracks, but still searching.

 

[BroodBuster]

We looked back and could see that his route was a dead straight line from where we first picked up his tracks to this pass. Ours? Was a crookedly line going up/down and around.

Lesson learned, follow the wolverine tracks, he didn’t waste a single step!

I saw one several years ago in Wa. Not far from SunCadia/Cle Elum so not really deep wilderness. After a few phone calls I found a FS Bio who was just finishing up a study. This bio confirmed your observation. He encouraged me to try and get him on a game cam. His advice was to not set up on or even near a trail. He said that Wolverines rarely use trails and just head straight to where they want to go completely ignoring natural barriers.

Earlier that same day a buddy and I had seen a sow with two cubs so I had bear cubs on my mind. When we turned a corner I was like "damn another bear cub". As he ran off it was obviously not a bear cub so my buddy points and say's, "That's not a cub that's a Honey Badger!" lol

 

[eldeuce]

Wolverines to be reintroduced in Colorado

CPW will work with federal land management agencies to determine the public lands where North American wolverines could be released in Colorado.

www.ktvb.com

this is just a play so they can lock up land and keep hunters as well as O&G off of state and federal lands.
although would be cool to see "if they let us"...