Have you ever seen a wolverine in the wild?

[mthillrunner]

Float fishing the Yellowstone I saw one. First saw it up on a bluff & it came charging down the bank to the rivers edge. We floated by 20-30 ft from it. Something I never thought I’d see.

 

[gonhunting247]

I've seen 5, all in AK. They are incredible animals and amazing to watch covering ground. We have been lucky to see a couple of them during season. Very cool critter!

 

[Jic]

Alpine Idaho lake mid July few years back. Filmed for ~30 min. Eating frozen dead fish. View attachment 215455

 

[Hawk Tuah]

No. I live in SE Idaho and my friend who is the biologist for Forest Service says they have gotten one on a trail camera (after finding tracks) a few miles from my house but way high up. I lion hunt and spend a lot of time walking in snow but haven't seen tracks. I imagine they can stay pretty high in snow but don't know anything about them other than that they're neat.

 

[mountain monster]

I have seen 1 in the Gallatin canyon 1997 , I got a few photos but this was before cell phones ect. But you can tell what it is at least. Also saw tracks few years later couple miles from first sighting. I have seen 1 Lynx also ( around 2014)

 

[shoots-straight]

I've seen quite a few. I had 3 on a elk that a lion killed a few years back. I have video of them, but don't know how to post that video or a picture from those files.

Ran into some this trapping season.

 

[Bambistew]

I'm not sure how many. 30+ here in AK at least. Saw 8 in one hunting season. I usually see a couple a year or more. I have a few crappy pics. I've seen way more wolverines than wolves. I think there are a lot more of them than people realize.

I've had them steal sheep meat 2x.

Have also seen two in MT, one in the Madison range and one near Black Butte

 

[Greggkp]

Only one on a drop camp caribou hunt in Alaska in September 2001, just days before the contrails temporarily disappeared from the skies. A very memorable trip for many reasons!

 

[F250]

One, while hunting caribou during the winter season in northern James Bay, Quebec, Canada.

 

[hank4elk]

Saw one in BC eating dead salmon.
Saw 2 lynx climbing Mt. Logan.

 

[Deleted member 18333]

One in AK. Don't think it ever stopped moving. Not even for a second.

 

[Irishman]

Only ever saw one, and that was in Glacier National Park, and at a long distance. So in my experience, they would be the most seldom seen critter.

 

[D4570]

Funny you should ask.
Just recently people have taken pictures of two different Wolverines within a day of each other One someplace near Yellowstone and one in the center of Montana, Lewistown.
I saw one, years ago un Rogers Pass Mt.

 

[Gellar]

I have never seen one, but I have been fascinated by them for a long time. If you are fascinated by them too PBS has an excellent documentary on wolverines called "Chasing the Phantom"

 

[andrew11]

Seen 1.
A few years back, fairly deep in the Absaroka Beartooth Wilderness-Montana.

 

[brockel]

One quite a few years ago. Won’t say where as you’d think I was even more full of shit than normal. Way before I had a camera always in my pocket. Was driving along on the 4wheeler when it came across the road. Was such in shock when I seen it that I bailed off the 4wheeler and took off after it to get a better look. Eventually make my way back to the 4wheeler to find its no longer where I left it but 100 yards down the hill in a buffalo berry bush. Forgot to set the brake when I bailed

 

[BuzzH]

Yes, Idaho/Montana border in the Great Burn roadless area while elk hunting...was close, maybe 30 yards away and like others have said, constantly on the move.

Cut tracks 3 different times while hunting, once in Wyoming hunting with Greenhorn and 2 other times hunting goats in Montana.

Tracks every now and then while trapping Montana.

 

[Panda Bear]

I'm not sure how many. 30+ here in AK at least. Saw 8 in one hunting season. I usually see a couple a year or more. I have a few crappy pics. I've seen way more wolverines than wolves. I think there are a lot more of them than people realize.

I've had them steal sheep meat 2x.

Have also seen two in MT, one in the Madison range and one near Black Butte

like this gentleman, I have no idea how many. We trap both the wolverine and lynx, but the season is over for this year. The "Territory" thinks we have approx 6000 Wolverines but have no idea how many Lynx

 

[MThuntr]

Never in person but on film yes


Sorry I'll see myself out

 

[406dn]

The one that I have seen was running up the Going to the Sun road in Glacier, just west of Logan pass. We were driving west shortly after sunrise, it was running towards us. I wasn't sure what it was until it turned and started up the mountain.

It stopped maybe thirty yards above us, and conveniently there was some room to pull to the side of the road. It watched us for perhaps a minute, then ran up the side of the mountain like it was nothing.