[middlefork]

Not quite as cool as getting a wolf on trail camin Utah but pretty neat none the less.

'A once-in-a-lifetime experience': Biologists catch wolverine 43 years after species' 1st Utah sighting

It took two aircraft, two traps and over a dozen wounded sheep, but Utah biologists finally captured an animal they've searched decades for.

www.ksl.com

 

[bowgy]

Pretty cool, I will never forget the time I saw one. We were on a 50 miler in the Uinta's when I was in scouts, I was about 14, we saw it running across a medow.

 

[pollo70]

That is way cool!

 

[wyogoob]

Wow, neato!!

One was captured on film in Yellowstone National Park this month.

 

[Vanilla]

The fact they got it collared is awesome. It’s going to be awesome to see what it does from here, if they’ll share the data.

 

[BPturkeys]

I read all the comments on KSL and it amazed me how many people claim to have seen one of these guys in Utah. One guy even claimed he sees them all the time up above Draper for heaven sakes and and other guys claims he saw one running down I-15 up by Riverdale. But really, lets be honest here, and I don't want no lying going on...Have you ever seen a Wolverine in Utah?

 

[taxidermist]

I read all the comments on KSL and it amazed me how many people claim to have seen one of these guys in Utah. One guy even claimed he sees them all the time up above Draper for heaven sakes and and other guys claims he saw one running down I-15 up by Riverdale. But really, lets be honest here, and I don't want no lying going on...Have you ever seen a Wolverine in Utah?

In my 40 years of trapping and hunting in Utah, I've never put eyes on one. I don't frequent the Uinta's that often, and I assume that would be the prime habitat for them. It's an awesome discovery and I hope the Biologists can gain a great deal of information from it.

 

[Critter]

It would be really cool if I could see one out in the wild.

I know that when I was up in British Columbia I asked my guide about them and he just laughed at me. He then told me that he had only seen a few of them in his lifetime of guiding and working as a logger.

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[bowgy]

I read all the comments on KSL and it amazed me how many people claim to have seen one of these guys in Utah. One guy even claimed he sees them all the time up above Draper for heaven sakes and and other guys claims he saw one running down I-15 up by Riverdale. But really, lets be honest here, and I don't want no lying going on...Have you ever seen a Wolverine in Utah?

Yes, as I said we were on a scout 50 miler hike I think it was the summer of 1969 or 70, we saw one running or kind of loping across a meadow, at first someone thought it was a small bear but our leader worked for DWR and he said no it's a wolverine. It was a big meadow sloping up to a hillside and we was able to watch it for several minutes. I have a very vivid memory of it because that evening our leader told us about them and other animals. It was also the same trip that I saw my first elk in the wild. We spent 8 days to hike the 50 plus miles. Of course we didn't hike on Sunday, just had a sacrament meeting and rested.

 

[wyogoob]

This is really cool......west of Randolph....love it.

Las year there was one on trail camera south of Evanston just across the Utah/Wyoming border.

Then there was one dead on the road at Laketown.

Before that there was one dead on Route 30 by Fossil Butte National Monument between Sage Junction and Kemmemmmerrerrerrer.

 

[7mm Reloaded]

I think it’s the only animal I haven’t seen in Utah . Way cool

 

[taxidermist]

Kemmemmmerrerrerrer.
You are the jovial one Goob. Between this and Evingston.I cringe when I talk to folks in Utah and they say ingston, I want to slap them.

 

[Kevin D]

As a trapper and houndsman since I was a kid I've spent a lifetime spotting and identifying tracks. I have never seen a wolverine in the wild, but once right around the winter of '78 I was running a trapline for bobcat near the headwaters of blacksmith fork river above the 5M ranch when I came across a set of tracks that could've only been wolverine. This was only about 10 miles as the crow flies from where they captured this wolverine. The track size, pattern, and stride was something I had never seen before, and honestly, have never seen since.

I haven't read all the comments on ksl about people claiming numerous wolverine sightings, I just know from my own experience how rare these animals really are in Utah.

 

[wyogoob]

The DNR said there has only been 8 confirmed wolverine sightings in Utah since 1979.

 

[wyogoob]

Kemmemmmerrerrerrer.
You are the jovial one Goob. Between this and Evingston.I cringe when I talk to folks in Utah and they say ingston, I want to slap them.

Yeah, no one knows how to spell Kemmerrerrer, even the people from Kemmerrrer.

 

[johnnycake]

I saw a wolverine in the Hammmmmm's fork just outside of Kemmerrrrrerrererr antelope hunting in 2011. Took a sec to realize what I was looking at, thought it was a bear cub at first.

 

[one4fishing]

Quite impressive that that little 28 pound critter can mess up 18 sheep and kill several of them.
My kids pug weighs 20 pounds and I don’t think she could take out a mouse.

 

[wyogoob]

The DNR said there has only been 8 confirmed wolverine sightings in Utah since 1979.

The DNR says there were 4 confirmed wolverine sightings in Utah in 2021.

Wolverine captured, collared and released in Utah

A wolverine that was spotted recently in Rich County is now wandering the Uinta Mountains with a GPS collar around its neck. Utah Division of Wildlife Resources biologists are excited to learn more about an elusive animal with only eight confirmed sightings in Utah since 1979.

wildlife.utah.gov

 

[Vanilla]

With their range it’s possible it was all the same critter. That is why the gps collar is going to be so cool.

 

[bowgy]

Not Utah but kind of cool