If you want to take a deep dive into wolverine studies, you can Google Audrey Magoun and try to unravel various sites and studies. A lot of the information is buried in ADFG archives, but with diligence can be found. She was a bit of a pioneer using cameras and hair traps to study wolverine. She did a fairly long study in southeast Alaska and brought a lot of new information and ideas regarding habitat usage, territory size and travel of individual animals.
Another source of really valuable information is another study conducted by ADFG in the northern southeast area by Kevin White, LaVerne Beier, and Ryan Scott in the Berners Bay area.
The information gathered by that study is amazing, and included some pretty incredible statistics on individual wolverine that gave me pause. I had access to anecdotal "evidence", as well as follow-up information not included in the study proper, and outside the study timeframe, including a "lost" collar that turned up 2, (or was it 3?), years later that originated on a male wolverine captured in Berners Bay, that travelled northwest almost to Skagway, returned to the bay, then went north over the ice fields, then south to the Taku River, went north again into British Columbia, crossing the Taku in winter, (and presumably crossed over ice), gaining access to the stupefyingly jagged Tracy Arm area. It then went northeast again, travelling an un-known path to the headwaters of the mighty Stikine River system. From there it followed the river downstream, toward the coast. On its way, near Prospect Creek, still in British Columbia, it encountered a set made by a trapper. That was the end of what I consider the most amazing, documented travel of a furbearer I ever had the privilege of confirming. I should add that I had un-feted access to those doing the study, including the biologists and pilots used during the study. That not only gave me "inside information" regarding locations, weather and geographic conditions, lures and baits tried, and, naturally, frustrations related to trapping wolverine in general, but also other information that came from those people that didn't constitute pertinent data for the dictates of the study but were very informational to a trapper.
To make it even more amazing is, that wolverine started his incredible journey, (and all the information gleaned from him), from my trapline of 13 years. In fact, the very spot of his capture, happened within 100 yards of another Tman member's line. He and I basically pursued the same population, and ADFG decided to join our party, if you will.
For me, at least, it was worth the knowledge gained from the study.
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