Distribution and Status of the Wolverine in Montana
- 1 May 1955
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Journal of Mammalogy
- Vol. 36 (2), 248-253
- https://doi.org/10.2307/1375884
Abstract
Wolverines (Gulo gulo) were probably distributed throughout the mountainous areas of Montana until the western fur trade became active. If Coues (1893) was correct in his interpretation of remarks in the journals of the Lewis and Clark expedition, possibly the earliest recorded observations of the wolverine in Montana were made in 1805 near the present city of Great Falls and in the Big Hole Valley near the Idaho-Montana border. Even as late as 1927 the wolverine population of Yellowstone Park was estimated at six or eight by Skinner (1927), but from information available from trappers and fur buyers it seems likely that in most areas of Montana the wolverine was near extinction before that time. In recent years, however, wolverines have been seen and shot or trapped with increasing frequency in the northwestern portion of the state. In an effort to evaluate...Keywords
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- History of the expedition under the command of Lewis and Clark, to the sources of the Missouri River, thence across the Rocky Mountains and down the Columbia River to the Pacific Ocean performed during the years 1804-5-6 by order of the government of the United States.Published by Smithsonian Institution ,1893