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	Podcast:		Local Features by WXPR
	Episode:		Wolverines in Wisconsin?
	Category:		Government & Organizations
	Duration:		00:04:16
	Publish Date:		2019-01-07 05:00:00
	Description:		There are a few animals that were probably present here but have been lost in the last hundred years or more. In this week’s Wildlife Matters , the Masked Biologist considers past records of the wolverine in Wisconsin. I guess it would be fair to say that the history of the wolverine in Wisconsin is not entirely clear. The records of reported observations or specimens seem to indicate that there were very few and infrequent wolverines present up to about 1870. According to Hartley Jackson’s Mammals of Wisconsin, there were three authentic reports that occurred in North Central Wisconsin. There was a wolverine reported as being killed in the first half of 1876 and turned in at the Taylor County office in Medford for a predator bounty payment. Another newspaper report came from Marathon county in 1870 that stated that a wolverine was taken along the Big Rib River. Finally “another good record comes from Chief Warden Barney Devine and George Ruegger of Radisson in their report that a Mr.
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