Wolverines have returned to Mt Rainier (a few of them anyway)

[Beringia]

For the first time in more than 100 years, wolverines have returned to Mount Rainier National Park in Washington state, the National Park Service announced Thursday.

The National Park Service and scientists with the conservation organization Cascades Carnivore Project spotted the female wolverine and her two offspring, also called kits.

“It’s really, really exciting,” Mount Rainier National Park Superintendent Chip Jenkins said.



“It tells us something about the condition of the park — that when we have such large-ranging carnivores present on the landscape that we’re doing a good job of managing our wilderness,” Jenkins said.

Wolverines are rare in the U.S. with less than 1,000 living in the lower 48 states, officials said. In Washington state, there are only about 20, according to the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife. Scientists say climate change is presumably a threat to the species.


Wolverine Gulo gulo, 15 second video by Timothy Barksdale, Jul 2001
Glacier National Park, Flathead, Montana, United States

https://cdn.download.ams.birds.cornell.edu/api/v1/asset/420968/mp4


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[3Hotdogs]

1. Top photo, right hand subject,

Is that a request for a belly-rub?

[wendyb-NC]

2. Good news

I hope they thrive.