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Wolverines were first petitioned to be listed under the Endangered Species Act in 1995. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed to list the wolverine as a threatened species in 2013.
Among Montana's mammals, three are listed as endangered or threatened and the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks lists a number of species as species of concern. [2] Species are listed by common and scientific names, as per R. S. Hoffman and D. L. Pattie, A Guide to Montana Mammals, 1968. [3]
That includes animals in Idaho, Montana, Washington and Oregon. Wolverines require healthy snowpacks that persist late into the spring and don't like development or persistent human presence.
The listing under the Endangered Species Act reverses a 2020 Trump administration determination that such a classification was unwarranted, leading to a federal court ruling in Montana last year ...
It is also believed that the grizzly bear and wolf packs may frequent the refuge, and wolverine have been recorded. The refuge has been designated a National Natural Landmark [ 2 ] and the creation of the 32,350 acre (130.1 km 2 ) Red Rock Lakes Wilderness in 1976 ensures that no further human improvements will be undertaken on the vast bulk of ...
The wolverine's questionable reputation as an insatiable glutton (reflected in its Latin genus name Gulo, meaning "glutton") may be in part due to a false etymology.The less common name for the animal in Norwegian, fjellfross, meaning "mountain cat", is thought to have worked its way into German as Vielfraß, [5] which means "glutton" (literally "devours much").
Wolverine trapping was once legal in states including Montana. At least 10 wolverines have been accidentally captured in Montana since trapping was restricted in 2012. Three were killed and the ...
Wolverine, Gulo gulo, coniferous forests and alpine meadows E W A; Pacific marten, Martes caurina, coniferous forests, E W; North American river otter, Lontra canadensis, rivers, lakes, ponds, E W; Least weasel, Mustela nivalis, open forests and grasslands, E W R; American ermine, Mustela richardsonii, coniferous forests and meadows, E W A