California mountains, trail camera, 2024. Biologist checked footage expecting deer or coyote. Froze. Wolverine – stocky, dark, unmistakable. Second confirmed in 101 years. First was 2008, lone male, never seen again. This one younger, healthier, moving confidently. Wolverines need vast territories, deep snowpack, minimal humans. Shouldn’t exist here. Climate changing their range or California wilderness healing enough to welcome them back? DNA samples collected, tracking equipment deployed. One animal seems insignificant. But apex predators don’t return to broken land. They choose places that can sustain them. This wolverine walked through mountains his kind abandoned a century ago. Wild doesn’t forget the way home. It just waits for safety to return.
Vastly reduced imterest im animal fur is a major contributing factor to the return of many Fur bearing animals.
It has reduced the profit, pushing the fur industry closer to extinction.
I personally saw 1 twice in Iowa. A lady had 2 young ones killed on road in front of her house had pictures of them and mother in her yard. DNR officer said she was wrong till she showed him the dead ones.
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California has more wilderness than any state except Alaska. Yup. California. Not Montana. Not Colorado. Not Idaho. It's California.
As a teenager, my cousin and I were walking on land her dad had just bought. We came to a crevice and about 20 to 30 ft straight down was a wolverine. The only one I have seen in the wild. He was sleeping in the shade. We woke him up by talking and he came right up the side of that crevice after us. Never have I ever ran so fast.
I saw their tracks 40 years ago in the Sierra Nevada mts up by Lake almanor. Friend of mine saw one in trinity County 30 some years ago. They been here alot longer than they think or maybe they just the last to know
We had a female spotted in 2004, in Michigan's thumb area, on and off until she was found deceased in 2010. No known sightings for over 200 years❤
Newscum will find a way to tax him.
Good news they are back
Now show me a grizzly in California and we’re cooking with gas.
Not a creature to be trifled with and will fight anything for A meal 😳 beautiful coat 😊
Animals adapt quicker to changes( maybe because their life span is shorter). They may have adapted to human encroachment.
So what's the problem?
Democrats say they can control the climate through taxation.
This is California.
It's a one party state.
Fix the climate through taxation😂😂😂
There is no such thing as climate change when are you going to do a little research? The climate varies in cycles do to the earth's rotation and wobble around the sun we just came out of a mini ice age
See how these wolverines keep using cameras for their own good!
Chinese spy
Obviously they were there all the time, given enough underbrush anything can be concealed.
WOLVERINES!
Early 1970s I was Backpacking by Sadler Lake in CA and one of these chased my brother and me pretty far up the trail. Every one said we are crazy, grey white, NO, brown and black. I was terrified and no weapons
All those little old ladies that leave cat food out at night run a certain risk and are not aware of it.
Imagine when the veil completely diminishes and the light bearing source, ( hue-man) finally awakens and remembers, once the human remebers those that oppressed and hid knowledge are revealed, 🎉 I just want to pull the gallow on one of them,
It's California…..it's not safe. Probably be shot by the cartel on an illegal weed grow or mistaken as a bear and killed for its gallbladder for the chinese.
And that is why mountain lions thrive in Los Angeles county. Apex predators adapt to survive. Leopards thrive in crowded urban India. Coyotes run city streets. Bears, wolves, etc all are adapting to urban and developed landscapes. Part of that has to do with access to food: pets and livestock, as well as our urban and rural development creating spaces for deer, rabbits, and the like to thrive as well. Humans disrupt ecosystems, but we don’t eliminate them unless we are deliberate about doing so.
I AM SURE IT IS BECAUSE OF SMARTASS GAVINN NEWSOM
I saw one in Northern Wyoming number years back, but in California that’s amazing. That is amazing. I don’t like to be around where people are and you sure don’t wanna have one. Find out where your trap line is cause they’ll run your traps long before you get a chance to.
California is 760 miles from top to bottom. Mountains all the way up n down! It was found in the eastern sierras. East side of Yosemite. I think someone found it somewhere else and tried to keep it as a pet but it got away.
California is so disgusting, wild animals won't even stay there. The Sodom and Gomorrah of the modern world.
Just because you don’t seem then doesn’t mean their not there. Not extinct just elusive. We hardly se them up north where their in abundance
Red Dawn
Californiania ….i can almost smell the garbage…😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
the fires are trying to take california back. the people in cali have lived in consumerism for too long. the earth wishes to heal
Na, this thing saw the dumb stuff happening North of California and decided to stick with the evil it knows instead of risking one of its cubs becoming confused about its identity and wiping out the species completely
Any backpacker in the wilderness has seen wolverines in the 1960s 80s 90s into the 2000s they were there all along
Beautiful. I'm grateful to you for sharing.
I'm a First Nations woman that completely understands what this means.
May you be blessed, highly favored & protected as you go forward.
Cathy K.
Wilmington, NC