We learned two weeks back that Wolverines in the lower 48 might catch a break and be put on the Endangered Speices List..............The key reason that the Federal Judge overrode the USFW previous decision not to list the GULOS is warming temperatures and the adverse impact this will likely have on female Wolverines building snow dens to birth and wean their pups...............Now, WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY scientists are going to work up in Alaska studying this very issue---How will warming termperatures impact this Carnivore

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Researchers work to better understand how climate change impacts wolverines

By Bryan Dunagan 11:29 AM April 23, 2016

ANCHORAGE – 

A team of Wildlife Conservation Society
 researchers,
 with the help 

of the Alaska Department of Fish and
Game, successfully
collared two North 

Slope wolverines, according to a release
 from WCS.

The team is working to understand
how climate change
affects wolverines

 and their habitat. Researchers used
high-tech traps, which
 send an email once

 it has been sprung, to capture the animals.

Tom Glass of WCS  

WCS personnel said Wolverines are hard
 to find because they are
 known to

 have a huge roaming range and make hidden
 dens.

Researchers followed over 45 miles of
 wolverine tracks to learn that
wolverines

 make dens deep in snowdrifts along shallow
 stream banks. Researchers
 only found

 one active den, and got what they say is
 the third set of images of a
mother wolverine 

and her kit.

So far, they have only been able to collar
 two wolverines. The collars
will transmit 

data every day, giving researchers a real-
time look at wolverine’s
movements.

According to WCS, the trapping portion
of the project will continue
 until the end of April

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Wolverines

Wolverines in the lower 48 states are being
 considered for listing under

 the U.S. Endangered Species Act because
 of their low numbers and

 vulnerability to climate change. Elsewhere,
 the Committee on the 

Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada just
 confirmed wolverine

 as a species of special concern due to its low
reproductive rate

 and susceptibility to threats such as industrial
activity and human

 access to its remote habitats via new roads
and more snowmobiles,

 which are increasing. In addition, the wolverine
is one of WCS’s 15 

global priority species. Very little is known about
 wolverines and their status 

in Alaska.

species with a

 demonstrated vulnerability to human disturbances
 and impending 

changes on the land, we need to develop a better
understanding of 

the potential magnitude of such impacts. This will be
 a necessary 

foundation for developing mitigation and conservation
 strategies in

rve this species elsewhere in its global range.

Activities

WCS is conducting aerial surveys of wolverine tracks
on the

 North Slope of Alaska (the National Petroleum
Reserve-Alaska). 

These surveys demonstrate how wolverines are
distributed and 

how that relates to human disturbance, elevation,
and other factors. 

The survey teams, two Super Cub airplanes with a
pilot and a spotter,

 flew nearly 14,000 miles in April 2015. Future efforts
 include plans to

 live capture up to 20 wolverines in 2016 for genetic
and contaminant 

sampling