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Winter 2012/13 seasonhighlights - 25 trappers and 2 ACAbiologists operated 50 totalrun poles - 21 wolverine samples (scat,tissue, toe pad, hair) from 13individuals were collectedfrom harvested and livewolverines - Marc from Rainbow Lakecollected 91+ wolverine hairsamples alone! - In addition to wolverine,we collected 24 marten, 47fisher, 2 bobcat and 10cougar hair samples, for atotal of 202+ samples
VIDEO: Cougar
Cougars at Wolverine Project 2013
Best photos from winter 2012/13
Grizzly Bear from the Crowsnest Pass area
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These images were capturedat Tony Cadrain's run polenear Nordegg and puttogether into a video by ACAproject biologist, MikeJokinen. The adult femalecougar in the photos has aneartag - apparently, she wascaptured and marked byresearchers during theCentral East Slopes CougarStudy (2004-07).
Let's Go Outdoors Michael Short produced acouple stories on thewolverine project.
Let's Go Outdoors: Season 2 -
Episode 12
Let's Go Outdoors: Season 2 -
Episode 10
Trappers!Stay tuned for a summary of
Cross Fox from the Willmore Wilderness
Bobcat from Crowsnest Pass area
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your run pole results laterthis summer after all thedata has been entered andanalyzed.
Contact usHave a wolverine story orphoto to share? Send it to usand we'll post it in thenewsletter. Hope to see youat the ATA Rendezvous inGrimshaw, July 19 - 20! Mike Jokinen #400, 817 - 4 Avenue S. Lethbridge, AB T1J 0P8 403-715-0211 [email protected]
Shevenell Webb 101-9 Chippewa Rd. Sherwood Park, AB T8A 6J7 780-996-4104 [email protected]
In a nutshell The Wolverine Partnership isa unique research approachthat combines traditionalknowledge and cutting edgescience. The AlbertaTrappers' Association (ATA)and Alberta ConservationAssociation (ACA) areworking together to
2 Fishers at Run Pole near Conklin
Male wolverine from Rainbow Lake area
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Photo: N. Naef
inventory the elusivewolverine across theprovince. We are usingquestionnaires, harvestinformation and field data todetermine wolverinedistribution, populationtrends and habitatassociations. Lynx family group near Conklin
Meet the trapper
Mike Naef Mike Naef currently runs 2 registeredtraplines near Hinton. Originally fromSwitzerland, Mike is a skilled outdoorsmanand carpenter, building beautiful custom loghomes and cabins. He has a big heart and isan advocate for wildlife and wild places.
In addition to being active on the ATA Hintontrapping local, he sits on forest advisoryboards to represent the importance offurbearers. Mike also volunteers a lot of timegiving school and public presentations aboutfurbearers.
We appreciate Mike's hard work and dedication to the wolverine project,despite little action last winter, a true test of someone's genuinecharacter. Mike may not have photographed any wolverines, but it wasnot for lack of trying; his run poles were out for the longest duration oftime (5 months).
Terry Batt
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Photo: ACA, Shevenell Webb
Terry Batt is a rancher and experiencedtrapper. He's been trapping for 40 years inAlberta and currently runs multiple traplinesin the High Level area. We enjoyed workingwith Terry and appreciated his regularreports.
His favourite species are wolves. He compareswolf trapping to a chess game, "I make mymove and then wait for the wolves to maketheir move and the game carries on until the
end of season." Terry says, "The chess game was also played with thewolverine and the camera stations, trying to get them to climb on therun poles was a great challenge." His persistence paid off when awolverine finally climbed on the run pole at the end of winter. We werefortunate to spend a day with Terry on his trapline in March and learnmore about the beautiful far north. It's great wolverine country up there!
Trapper Questionnaire Results
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Our questionnaire analysis revealed new findings about trapperbehaviour and wolverine occurrence in Alberta. We received 148questionnaires representing 125 trappers and 137 different registeredtraplines (see map).
Responses originated from Rocky Mountains (39%), Boreal (37%),Foothills (23%) and Grassland (1%). The vast majority of responsesindicated that trappers always want wolverines present (60%), but theyalso want to continue to harvest wolverine (42%).
Not unlike other conservationists, trappers indicated that wolverinesrepresented true wilderness to them (42%), while others indicatedneutral feelings, that wolverines were neither good or bad (27%).
The mean proportion of traplines that had ever detected a wolverine was
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highest in the Rocky Mountains (0.82), followed by NW Boreal (0.76),Foothills (0.67) and NE Boreal (0.57).
The top model predicted that wolverine occurrence was negativelyassociated with road density and positively related to the number ofyears of trapping experience, trapper effort (i.e., proportion of areatrapped), increasing or stable wolverine population trend and traplinearea.
We recommend that traditional knowledge approaches, such as trapperquestionnaires, be incorporated into long-term monitoring tools to cost-effectively assess wolverine population trends in the future. We will givea presentation about these results at the ATA Rendezvous in Grimshaw.
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