Skunk bear my Dad always called them.

I wish I could Trap one of those!

Ha, that's what I said when I saw the mounts, then page down and saw what you wrote!

I'd love to catch one too, but ain't gonna happen down here in Ks, Scott!

I know, it might be A destination Trip someday...like my AK. Bear hunt.

Anything wolverine related is a cool thing. But, I don't buy that pose as a reflection of the real world. I have never seen two wolverines fight but I have seen one wolverine take on a dog and another one try a caribou.

In both instances the gulo was using his back feet to try to disembowel his opponent. In the case of the dog, he succeeded .

The wolverines could probably say they've never seen you fight either
Jkidding White

They'd be right !!

Very good, awesome

That's a neat mount all right.

Somewhere down lifes road I hope!

It's just a matter of being in the right place and having patience.

A client of ours took this one a couple years back. Real crazy story about this wolverine that I wrote about in FFG. We got two at one location which isnt that unusual, what was unusual is that a bowhunter I was guiding had taken the mother of these two 6-weeks previously off of a moose kill. The two yearlings never left the kill site in all that time. We didnt know there were three of them when we were hunting as all we saw was the big female. She was the prettiest wolverine I've ever seen.

Males will kill the cubs so I think its likely that they do fight occasionally.

Im throwing a picture of the lynx the same client caught on that trip. His taxidermist told him it was the best furred lynx he had ever seen. I guess he has mounted some from Russia that were close. Anyway the client is from PA and a taxidermist there did the work.

WOW that cat looks like a candidate for weight watchers !! I've never seen a lynx that looked like that !!

I am sure wolverines do fight. Heck they look like they are brawling when they are mating.

I caught three females one morning. They were in sets about a half mile apart. Tim Caven ended up with the nicest one. It was an adult and two youngsters. The one young one that Tim got was the nicest I have seen. For some reason, I wonder if females have better hair. Hormones or something ??

I also caught three adult males within 50 yards of each other........at the same time. They were traveling together. No bait at all. I suspect that is very uncommon to see a group like that.

I've looked at wolverine population densities on the AK. Dept. of F&G site at least a couple of times and it looks to me based on their information it's a needle in a haystack proposition. I know you guys catch them, and some quite a few, but it looks like very few wolverine per thousand square miles if I was reading it right. If I ever hit Powerball, I'm moving back up there just to target those critters. There's nothing higher on my bucket list.

Female fishers have finer hair than the males so I'm not surprised that the closely related wolverines share the same trait.

Im not sure about Alaska, but our population is quite healthy. Despite what some might say, they have no reliable way to guesstimate wolverine numbers. When i was trapping up in the Logans there were places I could catch a wolverine almost any time I wanted. The area I trap now is heavy bush country. When I first started trapping that country I didnt think it would be good wolverine country. I was wrong. There are lots of them in the boreal forests, and they seem to like old burns too.

I agree. I think they move enough that you can find them in most habitats. BUT, they vary temporally. As long as there is food around they will usually stick with it. I also believe that higher wolf populations result in greater wolverine densities.

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