One of the camera trap images of the elusive wolverine
Wildlife biologists recently scanning photographs taken by a trail camera in the Uinta Mountains last winter, saw something never before captured in Utah: the first official photographs of a wolverine.
Kim Hersey, Mammals Conservation Coordinator for the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources (DWR), says biologists from the DWR and the US Forest Service set four stations — baited with road kill and monitored by trail cameras — along the north slope of the Uinta Mountains to capture images of any elusive forest-dwelling carnivores.
Having retrieved the cameras and viewed the hundreds of photos they came across their prize: the first wolverine verified in Utah since a wolverine carcass was found in 1979.
Wolverines are the largest terrestrial member of the weasel family.
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