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National Parks Traveler Podcast | Wolverine Recovery in Colorado
National Parks Traveler Podcast
English - April 21, 2024 12:00 - 47 minutes - 109 MB - ★★★★★ - 102 ratingsPlaces & Travel Society & Culture Science Nature acadia everglades olympic shenandoah yellowstone glacier grandcanyon kruger mountrainier nationalparks Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Wolverines, the largest land-dwelling members of the weasel family, once roamed across the northern tier of the United States, and as far south as New Mexico in the Rockies and southern California in the Sierra Nevada range. But after more than a century of trapping and habitat loss, wolverines in the lower 48 today exist only as small, fragmented populations in Idaho, Montana, Washington, Wyoming, and northeast Oregon.
However, there’s soon to be an effort in Colorado to help the carnivores recover in that state. The Colorado legislature has been considering legislation calling for the Colorado Parks and Wildlife Agency to move ahead with a recovery plan for wolverines. The bill is expected to face its final legislative hurdle in the coming weeks.
To discuss this initiative, we’re joined today by Megan Mueller, a conservation biologist with Rocky Mountain Wild, a non-profit advocacy organization working to bring them back, and Elaine Leslie, who was Chief of Biological Resources for the National Park Service before retiring.