Success Stories
Achieved Candidate status for wolverines through our ESA listing efforts
Our ESA listing efforts also catalyzed important research into the projected effects of climate change on wolverine habitat in the western U.S.
In 2008 Defenders recommended changes to Montana’s wolverine trapping season—the only one in the United States—to minimize the impacts trapping poses to wolverines. We helped restrict trapping to just five animals per year, and no more than three females, with much of western Montana closed to trapping altogether. While we would rather see no trapping of this imperiled species, our input helped reduce the number of wolverines that can be taken.
We helped fund important research into wolverine ecology in Glacier National Park in Montana, and on the effects of winter recreation on wolverines in Idaho
