A 2010-2012 monitoring project confirmed three individual wolverines in northeastern Oregon, an area with no prior documentation of wolverines.
However, a wolverine hit by a car on I-84 near Cascade Locks was surrendered to ODFW in 1990. Most accounts reported are visual encounters that can be difficult to verify. Wolverines are thought to have been eliminated from Oregon by 1936, though reports were documented each decade from the 1960s to the 1990s, including locations in Linn, Harney, Wheeler, Deschutes and Grant counties. Hood National Forest include winter tracking, summer scat, and year-round camera surveys. They are strongly associated with snowpack and are most commonly found at high elevations within the southern extent of their distribution, according to ODFW.Ī rare wolverine spotted in Portland (ODFW)Ĭascadia Wild and ODFW encourage people to report additional sightings of the wolverine.Ĭascadia Wild’s Wolverine Tracking Project and surveys in Mt. Wolverine are widely found in Canada and Alaska, with smaller populations in Washington, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming and Oregon, which is at the southern edge of the current wolverine range in North America. The cameras will allow ODFW to verify if the wolverine is still in the area. ODFW and Cascadia Wild deployed two non-invasive monitoring stations each consisting of a motion-detecting camera and a hair-collecting device baited with a strong-smelling attractant in the nearby area. “We really appreciate the people who reported this rare occurrence and Cascadia Wild who helped us confirm the report and begin monitoring efforts.” “Given the proximity to Portland, we were very surprised when this report came in and elated when we were able to verify the sighting,” said ODFW District Wildlife Biologist Dave Keiter. ODFW wildlife biologists organized a visit to the site where it was spotted with Cascadia Wild staff on Tuesday morning and found a set of wolverine tracks.
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