In stunning news, researchers at Oregon State University snapped a photo of a California Wolverine (Gulo luscus luteus) north of Lake
Tahoe between Truckee and Sierraville in the Tahoe National Forest. The actual location was on Sagehen
Road in the Sagehen Creek area at the Sagehen Creek Field Station. This station is in the Sagehen Creek Experimental
Forest. The field station itself, where the photo was taken, is at 6,375 feet.
Wolverines seem to exist more at lower elevations as one travels north in California. Towards the south in the Sierra Nevada, they are found more at 8,000-9,000 feet if sightings are any guide. It is 8.4 miles north of Truckee and 20 miles north of Lake Tahoe. Sagehen Basin itself ranges from 5,900 to 8,700 feet.
Despite much theory stating that wolverines hate any human presence, the area where the photo was taken is only 1.5 miles away from a major highway, Highway 89.
An excellent brochure about the Sagehen Creek area, listing hydrology, geology, geography, botany and biology, including insects, reptiles, amphibians and mammals, is here. Katie Moriarty, the graduate student who took the photos, was probably staying at the field station, which has excellent lodging facilities for researchers and has served as the study area for more than 80 theses and dissertations.
A photo of the first California
Wolverine documented since 1922. This wild region where they were found in being proposed as a wilderness area by Senator Barbara Boxer. The probable
proposed are is the proposed Castle Creek Wilderness
Area. The photo shows the wolverine from the rear view.
It is probably next to a Red Fir. In the background is what appears to be a White Fir and the tree in the foreground looks like some kind of pine. In this part of the Sierras, the Red Fir Zone (where this photo was probably taken) starts around 7,000 feet elevation.
A much larger version of this pic, too large to put on this blog, is available here on the researchers' website.
The area is in the central Sierra Nevada Mountains in northern California.
What they mean by confirmed sighting is that it has to be backed up by a photo, fur or scat. I know that a wildlife biologist saw one above Bishop, California in 1980, and I understand that there have been a number of other sightings by biologists. There have been quite regular sightings of these very elusive animals in California down through the years.
Neither is this the first California Wolverine sighting since 1922 - it is only the first sighting of the animal in California - as one was sighted in a den in southern Oregon in the Umqua National Forest in the past few years. That sighting was made by airplane in the middle of winter. Live California wolverines have also been trapped in far northern Washington state in the Cascades near the Canadian border in the past couple of years.
TO READ MORE GO TO THE SOURCE
http://robertlindsay.blogspot.com/2008/03/california-wolverine-re-discovered.html
What I got to add is this. If it took 80 years to snap a shot of a wolverine, could it be possible that a bigfoot is smarter which is why one is so hard to catch or snap a photo off. Just something to thing about...
Wolverines seem to exist more at lower elevations as one travels north in California. Towards the south in the Sierra Nevada, they are found more at 8,000-9,000 feet if sightings are any guide. It is 8.4 miles north of Truckee and 20 miles north of Lake Tahoe. Sagehen Basin itself ranges from 5,900 to 8,700 feet.
Despite much theory stating that wolverines hate any human presence, the area where the photo was taken is only 1.5 miles away from a major highway, Highway 89.
An excellent brochure about the Sagehen Creek area, listing hydrology, geology, geography, botany and biology, including insects, reptiles, amphibians and mammals, is here. Katie Moriarty, the graduate student who took the photos, was probably staying at the field station, which has excellent lodging facilities for researchers and has served as the study area for more than 80 theses and dissertations.
A photo of the first California
Wolverine documented since 1922. This wild region where they were found in being proposed as a wilderness area by Senator Barbara Boxer. The probable
proposed are is the proposed Castle Creek Wilderness
Area. The photo shows the wolverine from the rear view.
It is probably next to a Red Fir. In the background is what appears to be a White Fir and the tree in the foreground looks like some kind of pine. In this part of the Sierras, the Red Fir Zone (where this photo was probably taken) starts around 7,000 feet elevation.
A much larger version of this pic, too large to put on this blog, is available here on the researchers' website.
The area is in the central Sierra Nevada Mountains in northern California.
What they mean by confirmed sighting is that it has to be backed up by a photo, fur or scat. I know that a wildlife biologist saw one above Bishop, California in 1980, and I understand that there have been a number of other sightings by biologists. There have been quite regular sightings of these very elusive animals in California down through the years.
Neither is this the first California Wolverine sighting since 1922 - it is only the first sighting of the animal in California - as one was sighted in a den in southern Oregon in the Umqua National Forest in the past few years. That sighting was made by airplane in the middle of winter. Live California wolverines have also been trapped in far northern Washington state in the Cascades near the Canadian border in the past couple of years.
TO READ MORE GO TO THE SOURCE
http://robertlindsay.blogspot.com/2008/03/california-wolverine-re-discovered.html
What I got to add is this. If it took 80 years to snap a shot of a wolverine, could it be possible that a bigfoot is smarter which is why one is so hard to catch or snap a photo off. Just something to thing about...
