Park wolverines prove to be amazing beasts

From the Wednesday, April 4, 2007 online edition of the Hungry Horse News . . .

A few years ago a wolverine in Glacier National Park found a dead mountain goat in an avalanche off Mount Piegan. While the dead goat was buried under several feet of snow, the wolverine, with its keen nose had no problem finding the rotting goat.

As the wolverine dug in the snow a photographer walked up behind it. The wolverine heard the man, and walked away, not overly concerned, but not looking to interact with a two-legged creature either.

The man snapped off several pictures. The wolverine, a few years later, would die like its mountain goat dinner had died: By an avalanche.

The said photographer saw something most people rarely see in Glacier or the Rocky Mountain West for that matter: A live wolverine.

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