Cascades Wolverine Project

Cascades Wolverine Project Supporting wolverine recovery in the Washington Cascades, connecting science, storytelling, and recreation for the benefit of people and wildlife.
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2025 was a year of milestones for us. You can catch all the details in our annual Progress Report!For the first time, we...
05/28/2026

2025 was a year of milestones for us. You can catch all the details in our annual Progress Report!
For the first time, we have a summary version to complement the full report we compile annually. It's worth a peep. Thank you Anna Machowitz for creating such a useful, visual way to digest our annual update!

Read the summary report:https://cascadeswolverineproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/CWP-2025-Summary-Report-1.pdf

Read the full report:https://cascadeswolverineproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/CWP-2025-Progress-Report-2.pdf

Our very own David Moskowitz recently spotted these wolverine tracks in the North Cascades! Wolverine feet have five toe...
04/30/2026

Our very own David Moskowitz recently spotted these wolverine tracks in the North Cascades! Wolverine feet have five toes and a chevron-shaped palm pad. Wolverines can cover great distances. Their tracks are usually detected around and above treeline. Report your own wolverine track sightings (include photos with an object for scale next to the track) through our community observations form here: https://www.observations.cascadeswolverineproject.org/

Claws, feathers, tails, ears - often animals move through our camera stations leaving only a slice of their identity to ...
04/19/2026

Claws, feathers, tails, ears - often animals move through our camera stations leaving only a slice of their identity to be deciphered! How many can you ID?

We are so grateful to have the skilled help of so many wonderful volunteers. They help us strategize, tell stories, get ...
04/13/2026

We are so grateful to have the skilled help of so many wonderful volunteers. They help us strategize, tell stories, get our field work done and tag our photo data. Enjoy these photos of a few of our volunteers in their element!
In the last year alone we have leaned heavily on the expertise and generosity of volunteers Katharine Bill, Nick March, Jane Hosman, Peter Lambert, Jan Sodt, Jesse Snyder, Jason Paulsen, Leo Kleine, Brian McConnell, Adam Ü, Trevor Kostanich, Ella Hall, Forest McBrian, Lane Gormley, Michael Hutchins, Morgan Schubring, Alyssa Lovell, Nick Holden, Erik Aagaard, Leslie Hall, Wendy Sims, Mark Bach, Jake Ehlers, Jack Fiorillo, Martina Keil, Robert Nielsen, Ingrid Backstrom, and Michelle Parker. The staff at Holden Village has also been a huge help to our project.
Thank you everyone!

04/08/2026

Community science we can all enjoy and learn about wolverines from! Check out our growing catalogue of community wolverine observations through our dynamic map here: https://cascadeswolverineproject.org/community-observations/
A huge thanks to Rivershed SPC for donating the creation of this map to us!

04/06/2026

One of our favorite comm sci obs from the winter comes from Emily Hubble - who happened upon a wolverine apparently in play mode! Wolverines depend on deep snow for a lot of reasons: travel, hunting, caching food, and denning. Add this observation to the body of evidence that snow is used for wolverine play too!
Wolverine behavior gurus of the internet: what is your take on this behavior in a wild wolverine?

On our most recent check of our wolverine monitoring stations we discovered that one of locations here in the Methow Riv...
03/19/2026

On our most recent check of our wolverine monitoring stations we discovered that one of locations here in the Methow River watershed had been visited by a rare Cascade Red Fox. The Cascade Red Fox is a unique subspecies of red fox that lives in the subalpine in the Washington Cascades and is a species of conservation concern. This is our first detection of this species in 8 years of monitoring for wolverines—making them far more rare and elusive than even wolverines in our study area. Interestingly, this fox showed up at our station less than 24 hours after a wolverine had rolled around on top of where the wolverine had scent marked!

03/11/2026

Happy World Wolverine Day, everyone! Wolverines are a midsize carnivore honed for locating and consuming meat in rugged snowy landscapes. Wolverines live around the Northern hemisphere and here in the North Cascades we are on a southern fringe of their global range. Their primary threat here is climate change, given their dependence on persistent spring snow for denning.

Thank you to the Carnivore Conservation Compendium for establishing this new annual occasion for raising awareness of wolverines around the globe. (We are still going to celebrate these scrappy weasels every day though!)

Support our wolverine work with a donation and score a limited edition hat or shirt!These organic cotton, unisex shirts ...
03/03/2026

Support our wolverine work with a donation and score a limited edition hat or shirt!

These organic cotton, unisex shirts have a woodcut of Silver Star Mountain (our home turf for wolverine monitoring) by Project Coordinator Cal Waichler on the back and our logo as a chest blaze. Shirts come in dark grey, dark teal or dark green in sizes S-L (We are currently out of XLs). They were screenprinted right here in the Methow!

The hats have a leatherette patch with Cal's woodcut wolverine design. We have grey trucker style hats, or a five panel made from 100% recycled nylon taslan in black, blue, or light khaki. One size.

1. For a single* hat or shirt, make a $45+ donation through our
GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/vm7qd-cascades-wolverine-project

2. Forward your GoFundMe receipt, item color/size preference and mailing address to [email protected].

3. We will ship a shirt your way

*If you would like multiple items, you can make a donation for $45 for the first item and $35 for each additional item.

If you live outside the US and you would like a shirt or hat, email us to figure out your minimum donation so it can cover shipping. Thank you!!

We love to be in a room filled with curiosity and care for wolverines, and that's exactly what shook out at our wolverin...
02/24/2026

We love to be in a room filled with curiosity and care for wolverines, and that's exactly what shook out at our wolverine presentation last week in Leavenworth! Big thanks to Icicle Brewing for hosting and the awesome audience that showed up to nerd out about wolverines with us. Photos by Claire Seaman.

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