Multiple wolverines were documented this year by the Citizen Wildlife Monitoring Project and the Cascades Wolverine Project, adding to knowledge about the animal’s return to Washington. By: Laurel Baum, Citizen Wildlife Monitoring Project Coordinator About a hundred volunteers are involved in wildlife monitoring and citizen science every year through Conservation Northwest’s Citizen Wildlife Monitoring Project … Continued
Well, this explains what happened to our wolverine bait! Follow us on Instagram for more photos of Northwest wildlife: instagram.com/conservationnw. Or check out the albums in our Flickr photo archive. Gathering data on rare and recovering wildlife While most of our Citizen Wildlife Monitoring Project remote camera sites operate from spring through fall, a few hardy volunteers … Continued
By alaina kowitz, communications and outreach associate Our Citizen Wildlife Monitoring Project (CWMP) has five priority species that we do our best to document throughout Washington state. One of those is the wolverine (the other four are grizzly bear, gray wolf, fisher and Canada lynx), and we’ve become fairly adept at setting up monitoring camera … Continued
By Citizen Wildlife Monitoring Project staff While most of our Citizen Wildlife Monitoring Project remote camera sites are active only in the summer and fall, each winter our dedicated volunteers and staff maintain several sites looking for wolverines in remote areas of the Cascades. In 2016 one of them captured amazing new images of a gray wolf! … Continued
Monitoring the comeback of one of North America’s rarest wild animals Latest News May 2022: Court Restores Wolverine Protections While Agency Reconsiders Endangered Species Decision Wild icons of North America, wolverines (gulo gulo) are seldom-seen carnivores that favor remote, rugged, snowy landscapes, often in alpine and subalpine areas. Wolverines are the largest terrestrial members of … Continued
Climate change and genetic isolation threaten famously tough carnivore MISSOULA, Mont.— Describing the wolverine as a “snow-dependent species standing squarely in the path of global climate change,” a federal judge today overturned an August 2014 decision by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service refusing to grant this rare and elusive species any protection under the Endangered Species … Continued
By Alaina Kowitz, Communications and Outreach Associate Our Citizen Wildlife Monitoring Project harnesses the power of Northwest hikers, backcountry skiers, wildlife trackers and other volunteers to gather important data that informs land management and wildlife conservation policies. This month, two of our dedicated (and very patient) project volunteers picked up long-awaited wolverine photos on remote camera near … Continued
It’s been a stressful week for many in Washington and across the West. Here’s something lighthearted to cap it off: a wolverine frolicking in the mountains near Leavenworth! Icicle Creek Canyon just outside Leavenworth is one of Washington’s favorite outdoor destinations. Locals and visitors alike prize the area for outstanding backpacking, rock climbing, fly fishing … Continued
The adventures of our 2015 wildlife monitoring intern Tess Rooney By Tess Rooney, Wildlife Monitoring Intern As the spring-summer 2015 intern for the Citizen Wildlife Monitoring Project, I was familiar with the protocol for setting up a wolverine camera trap: construct a run-pole, stabilize it, attract wolverines with bait or lure, and set up two motion-activated … Continued
Wolverines (gulo gulo) have been recolonizing Washington’s North Cascades in recent years. Locally extirpated in the early 1900’s, these elusive creatures have slowly spread south from Canada since the early 2000’s, buoyed by Endangered Species protections and abundant mountain habitat. Today, it’s estimated that two to three dozen of these large mustelids (members of the weasel family) prowl … Continued