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Be sure you are at least 200 meters from any human used road or trail and 500 meters from a
campground. Follow the guidelines provided for the specific camera trap set you are constructing
(see below) to ensure you have the appropriate tree configuration.
Figure 1 Classic wolverine habitat in the North Cascades of Washington in summer. Photo by David Moskowitz.
Camera and DNA Trap Set Types
Conservation Northwest deploys two different camera and DNA trap set types for wolverines. For
short term monitoring, such as following up on reports of tracks in areas where the presence of
wolverines has not been established, a more simple baited station with a single camera is
constructed. For ongoing monitoring of a location where we have had detections of wolverines in
the past, a more elaborate run-pole set up is deployed which increases the odds of capturing
photographs which help identify and differentiate different individual wolverines through
photographs.
Short term installations
These installations follow the guidelines established in the Coordinated Multi-state Wolverine
Baseline Sampling (Multi-state Wolverine Working Group, 2015) document. All teams will be
provided with this document as a reference. The document will be annotated to reflect some minor
variations for the specifics of CWMP's project.
