Comments on: First California Wolverine Since 1922

By: whiteriverfisherman

whiteriverfisherman — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:29:01 +0000

I like to see that. A camera set up remotely that works. Notice how it is obviously a wolverine. Not a skinny bear with its face obscured by its shoulders and chest like the Jacobs video.

I am glad to see they exist there. I hope they can protect them and possibly help the population grow.

By: Spinach Village

Spinach Village — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 07:48:09 +0000

This is absolutely great news!

…but I cant help but wonder why if somebody takes a picture of a cougar for instance, in the eastern or midwestern part of the country it is not as warmly received… Not to mention Bigfoots

By: squatch-toba

squatch-toba — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 01:30:51 +0000

These cameras are a great thing!!! I would think that there are, at least, as many sasquatch in California as wolverines, most likely more!! Just a matter of time before some “good” photos of a ’squatch come to light!!! This was a great bit of news.

By: twpiers

twpiers — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 01:01:29 +0000

Come now thats obviously a picture of a baby bigfoot hunched over digging for food:) Lol lol lol lol lol

By: maslo63

maslo63 — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 22:31:06 +0000

Those game cameras are a God send IMO. I think we’ll be seeing a lot more animal discoveries or re-discoveries with these things being so common now. I have one, I cannot wait to set it up in some remote location. Who knows, perhaps I’ll get an Eastern puma. I was thinking about it just today. Cougars are supposed to be extinct here in NY but most of the state could easily support a small population. I know old timers who have never seen a coyote; a common and not particularly shy predator in this area. A cougar could live it’s entire life and never encounter a human here.

By: fallofrain

fallofrain — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 21:58:46 +0000

I once worked at a ski resort in Central Oregon. Among the sightings of different animals we’d get from skiers were occasional wolverines. It was rare, but nice to know they were still around. I’m happy to see the feisty critters are expanding back to their former range.

By: cryptidsrus

cryptidsrus — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 21:01:05 +0000

Thanks also, KITTENZ. You rock.

This is GOOD news. I’m glad all of these creatures that were thought extinct or no longer in a particular place making a comeback. Makes me positive about OUR continuing survival on this earth.

DWA:

I agree more people see SAS than wolverines every year—but like you said, let’s not “hijack” this thread. Good points, though.

By: dogu4

dogu4 — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 20:10:45 +0000

With their low profiles and short powerfull limbs (and jaws) they aren’t very swift as hunters in flatter low aspect terraine, such as the landscape in which this one is photographed. Their association with carrion is well known but I’ve heard that their physiology which also includes incredible sense of smell and fur with anti frost qualities, is a result of their evolution and adaptation to a life of hunting for avalanche and rock slide victims in glacial areas, trundling rocks, ice and logs along rocky valleys and steep unstable moraine and talus. We are often not fully aware that for the last few million years during which wolverines thrived, glaciers which supported a kind of habitat the likes of which remain in only vestigal examples, dominated our northern continental landscape. With the holocene warming the range for which they are natually adapted (physically and instinctively) is the high country above tree line and down into chutes and the stranded glacial moraines which still lie beneath the advancing forests that continue to extend northward. I’d like to see a bit of the Pleistocene restored, wouldn’t we all?

By: SOCALcryptid

SOCALcryptid — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 19:36:37 +0000

Great news, thanks kittenz. I spend a lot of time in the high Sierras here in California fishing and of course searching for my favorite cryptid Sasquatch. If Wolverines are in Oregon, they may also be here in California. The Sierra Nevada Mountains run through Oregon into California and it would be possible for Wolverines to travel south into California along these mountain ranges.
It makes me happy to know that some species of animals are back in their natural habitat.

By: sschaper

sschaper — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 17:30:49 +0000

I’m not surprised, either. A number of years back there was a ‘black animal’ going south through eastern Iowa, killing dogs. Sounded like a wolverine.

A couple three years back, a wolverine was caught on a security camera at Zumbrota Ford in SE MN.

I just saw Loren on Monsterquest about the dog and horse kills up to Rollag. Several animals could have done it, from wolves, to cougars, to wolverines, but recalling the Jack London tale about a miner snowed in his cabin, and the wolverine trying to get at him, and other things I’ve heard about them, the killing for sport, and leaving the carcass without necessarily eating it, does sound like wolverine. And Rollag is many hours north and a couple west of Zumbrota, much closer to the Northwoods than down here.