Learning from Wolverines

For the July/August issue of The Wildlife Professional, Robert and I co-authored an article about our wolverine research in Washington, emphasizing the need for creative collaborations and innovative survey methods given possible threats to the wolverine population in the future.

Learning from Wolverines summarizes research activities currently underway in the Washington Cascades, where we’re working with a community of biologists to monitor wolverines as they recolonize former habitat that is predicted to be at odds with climate change.

Photo: Woodland Park Zoo

This issue also features an extensive article on wildfires and wildlife, which seems frightfully relevant as we begin to carry out summer wolverine surveys with smoke in the air. Yesterday, as we hiked to a mountain camera, I was alarmed to see wilted wildflowers and crispy conifer needles so early in the season. Tongues of snow still licked the peaks, but the torrent of snowmelt rushing through the creek below was yet another indication of soaring temperatures in June and early July.

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