Sagehen wolverine sightings

The Sagehen wolverine left tracks at the top of the basin at least 4 times in winter 2015/16, and turned up twice on CADF&W camera traps in February:

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• A great article with background about the Sagehen wolverine.

CADF&G installs camera traps.

Bristles capture hairs for DNA testing.

Wolverine tracks. Photo by chickadee researcher,
Vladimir Pravosudov

Photo by skiers, Eric Efthimiou & Debbie Thomas

Wolverine update!

An update on the Sagehen Wolverine. Here's a video from the SPI wildlife biologist who tracks him in the Tahoe National Forest.

You can also read the recent article in Discover Magazine.

Sagehen ants on National Geographic TV

We provided stock footage of Sagehen's slave-making ants for National Geographic's "When Aliens Attack!".

This segment about official protocol when encountering space aliens reminds me a lot of the brouhaha after the accidental discovery of the California wolverine by Sagehen researchers.

Much like in the program, Sagehen researcher Bill Zielinsky was presented with an official Forest Service plan for the encounter (which he himself had prepared many years before for just this eventuality, never really thinking it would happen, of course).

Katie Moriarty talks weasels.

August 7, 2008: For Sagehen Speaker Series #22, researcher Katie Moriarty discusses her work on martens in the Sagehen basin. She also discusses other Sierran predators, including the big surprise that turned up on her camera trap on February 28, 2008.

Moriarty, K. M., American Marten Distributions over a 28 Year Period: Relationships with Landscape Change in Sagehen Creek Experimental Forest, California, USA. 2009, OSU. 108 pp. [PDF]

Moriarty, K.M., W. J. Zeilinski, A. G. Gonzales, T. E. Dawson, K. M. Boatner, C. A. Wilson, F. V. Schlexer, K. L. Pilgrim, J. P. Copeland, M. K. Schwartz, Wolverine Confirmation in California after Nearly a Century: Native or Long-Distance Immigrant?

More marten research at Sagehen.

Watch Pine Marten videos.

American Martens in Sagehen Basin. from F. Felix on Vimeo.

Wolverine spotted & videoed this time.

The Sagehen wolverine has appeared again!

See our News Blog for more information about the Sagehen wolverine.