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Figure 6: All wolverine installations for 2017 spanned between the Mount Baker Snoqualmie National Forest in the southwest
and northwest to the Okanogan Wenatchee NF east of the cascade crest, to the North Cascades National Park in the
northeast.
The wolverine monitoring included 11 distinct installations, 4004 trap nights, making up 42.3 percent of our total
monitoring efforts for the year (Table 8, Figure 2). Four of our eleven wolverine survey areas were active all year in
2017: Chiwaukum, Union Gap, Lookout Mountain, and Ice Lakes. The Ice Lakes camera had not been visited since
2015, due to complications with access in 2016 due to wildfires, but was discovered active by our volunteer team
and with 8 separate wolverine detections over the course of the monitoring period. Volunteers have re-baited
and serviced the cameras. Numerous wolverine survey areas are currently being maintained over the winter
season from 2017-2018. These active sites include: Chiwaukum, Union Gap, Lookout Mountain, and a Kendall
Peak, and Lake Ethel.
Table 8. Wolverine survey area information, including duration of monitoring and number of installations.
+
Denotes a survey
area without a run-pole installed. ^Denotes the first date photos were received in 2017 from survey areas left active over the
