From what I've heard, you can't keep a collar on a wolverine long enough to gain very much data. Now if you're doing implants then that's a different story.

I'm all for the live trapping methods, but if we are paying via grants for someone to be on site to build the traps, and perform all of the scientific aspects of doing this type of study, we are taking about a lot more money than setting some traditional traps. You could just as easily use some # 4 or 5 leg traps and check them every day.

If trapping data from Montana is as useless as you say, then checking in trapped wolverines has no purpose and FWP is wasting money performing this service. The fact that a similar number of wolverines are trapped each year, often in similar locations, suggests at least to me a healthy population. If the number of wolverine trapped tailed off dramatically, then maybe we could derive the need for further protection under federal standards.

Anyway I hope you find more money for your project. I'm highly interested in anything related to wolverine management, so I'd like to hear where and what you're doing.