Happy Wolverine Wednesday Everyone!
It’s been yet another busy week here at the Wolverine Project headquarters. As much as I hate to say it, this will be your last Wolverine Wednesday Update of the season. I know it’s sad, but you’ll all have to start reading the newspaper again. I know many of you won’t be [...]
Spanning the Idaho/Montana border, the Scotchmans are one of the last, and largest, wild areas in our region. We conduct education, outreach and stewardship activities to preserve the rugged, scenic and biologically diverse 88,000 acre Scotchman Peaks Roadless Area. We believe the Scotchman Peaks deserve congressional designation as Wilderness for the benefit and enjoyment of current and future generations.
Author Archives: Kelsey Brasseur
About The Author:
Kelsey Brasseur is the wolverine project coordinator for the Friends of Scotchman Peaks Wilderness. A recent transplant to Sandpoint, ID, she hails from the beautiful shores of Lake Superior, where she received her BS in biology from Northland College in 2009.
An avid climber and adventurer, Kelsey looks forward to many new mountain adventures in the Idaho panhandle.
It’s Wolverine Wednesday!
March 28, 2012 – 4:53 pm
Wolverine Wednesday Update
March 23, 2012 – 11:15 am
Happy Wolverine Wednesday Everyone!
It’s been yet another busy week here at the Wolverine Project headquarters. Sad as it may seem, this is the last week of field work for the Wolverine Crew. We’ve had a great season together, and I can’t thank you enough for all your hard work on this project. Your efforts have [...]
It’s Wolverine Wednesday!
March 7, 2012 – 3:47 pm
Happy Wolverine Wednesday Everyone!
It’s been yet another busy week here at the Wolverine Project Headquarters. We’ve officially set the last stations of the season, and many of our earlier stations are now ready to be collected from their backcountry posts. Camera cards have been rolling into the office at a steady pace, and our Photo [...]
Gulo Gulo in the Cabinet Mountain Wilderness!
March 6, 2012 – 12:33 pm
USFS biologists have shared this video of a wolverine they captured on camera in the Cabinet Mountain Wilderness as part of their 2011-12 monitoring efforts. This marks the second year in a row that a wolverine has been photographed by biologists in the Cabinet Mountain Wilderness area.
In early January, IDFG biologists also shared photographs of [...]
It’s Wolverine Wednesday!
February 29, 2012 – 5:06 pm
Happy Wolverine Wednesday Everyone!
It’s been another busy week here at the Wolverine Project headquarters. We saw our first Red fox of the season in the Cabinets, and many more fisher, marten, ermine, and other critters throughout the study area. We’ve set the final round of stations for the season, and now were waiting to see [...]
It’s Wolverine Wednesday!
February 22, 2012 – 4:42 pm
Happy Wolverine Wednesday Everyone!
These last few weeks at the office have flown by, and it seems like the end of the season is just around the corner. But we’ve got a good month of adventures left, and I’m excited to see what you find at your stations. As always, The Wolverine Crew is doing great [...]
The Busiest Bait Tree in Idaho!
February 22, 2012 – 1:58 pm
We’ve seen some pretty cool critters during this season’s Rare Forest Carnivore Project, but the image of these three Martens might just snatch the award for best Reconyx photo of the season. This sure is the busiest bait tree in Idaho!
It’s Wolverine Wednesday!
February 15, 2012 – 4:01 pm
Happy Wolverine Wednesday Everyone!
We’re clipping right along through February, and as usual things have been busy here at the office. Thanks to everyone for your hard work pulling stations out of the field over the last few weeks! We’ve gotten quite a few of those cameras back out to our second round of sites, and [...]
A marten here, and a marten there.
February 8, 2012 – 4:19 pm
These two furry friends were digitally captured at work in the Selkirk Mountains of the Idaho Panhandle. Though we’ve seen a number of marten at our stations this winter, this is the first time we’ve seen two on the same tree! Click here to see the photo.
A camera station at night!
February 1, 2012 – 4:30 pm
Brad Smith from the Idaho Conservation League has created a time lapse video from the photographs captured at one of our camera stations at night. Follow this link to watch the short video and see what animals followed their noses to our cameras!
You can watch more videos from ICL on their YouTube channel by clicking [...]
It was going to be a great day…by Mary Franzel
January 31, 2012 – 3:20 pm
It was going to be a great day. I was headed up to re-bait my 2 wolverine stations with 2 entertaining women & one outstanding young man. The weather was perfect, we had a plan & it was going to be FUN! Well, 2 outta 3 ain’t bad. My biggest mistake was the statement, “it [...]
Tracking class scheduled for Feb. 20th.
January 31, 2012 – 2:57 pm
Brian Baxter will be teaching another class on wildlife tracking and animal sign interpretation on February 20th in Heron, MT. This is a great course for anyone interested in winter ecology and the critters that call this region home. For more information and to sign up, contact Brian Baxter at b_baxter53@yahoo.com. Brian’s classes have been [...]
It’s Wolverine Wednesday!
January 25, 2012 – 5:12 pm
It’s Wolverine Wednesday!
Hello volunteers! Below is the latest news from the wolverine world. Please read through and let me know if you have any questions. Thanks for all your hard work this past week and your continued commitment to the project as we head quickly into February.
Firkin Friday the wolverine way:
Keeping [...]
Enjoy Firkin Friday the wolverine way.
January 23, 2012 – 2:32 pm
Keeping in the tradition of a monthly get-together for our Wolverine Project volunteers, we invite all our project participants to join us on February 3rd for Firkin Friday at Laughing Dog Brewery in Ponderay, ID. This will be a great opportunity to meet other volunteers and to share stories from your camera station adventures this [...]
It’s Wolverine Wednesday!
January 18, 2012 – 5:02 pm
Hello Wolverine Volunteers!
It’s Wolverine Wednesday yet again, and oh what a week it has been! The beavers have arrived, new snow has fallen, and our first photos of critters have come back from the field.
This upcoming week is going to be a big one for the Wolverine Project. Please read through the updates that follow, [...]
Gulo gulo!
January 9, 2012 – 2:43 pm
This just in: After checking their first round of rare forest carnivore monitoring stations this past week, Idaho Department of Fish and Game biologists discovered that a very special visitor had been caught on camera in the Selkirk mountains of the Idaho Panhandle. A wolverine! The biologists have confirmed that it visited the station twice, [...]
It’s Wolverine Wednesday!
January 4, 2012 – 5:05 pm
I hope everyone is enjoying the first week of the New Year. Happy 2012 from all of us here at FSPW! We’re excited to have four camera stations up and running, with ten more set to go out in the next week. It won’t be long until we’re able to retrieve photos from the cameras [...]
Wolverine Wednesday Update
December 28, 2011 – 5:00 pm
Hello Wolverine Volunteers!
I hope everyone enjoyed a fun and happy holiday week! Best wishes from all of us here at the Friends of Scotchman Peaks Wilderness as we greet 2012 this Sunday. We’re looking forward to a great year for the Idaho Panhandle Wolverine Project!
I’ve just returned to the office and have a few updates [...]
Attention Wolverine Wannabes!
December 13, 2011 – 5:26 pm
For those of you who have signed up to be monitoring station leaders this winter and were unable to attend our December 3rd training day, there are two additional trainings scheduled in the next week. Read more here to see the schedule and sign up.
Trainings scheduled for wolverine station leaders.
December 13, 2011 – 5:08 pm
Attention wolverine wannabes! For those of you who have signed up to be monitoring station leaders and were unable to attend our December 3rd training day, there are two additional trainings scheduled in the next week.
In order to accommodate as many people as possible, we have scheduled the first training for Saturday the 17th at [...]
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