The goals of this study are to document wolverine occupancy in the vicinity of the Snoqualmie Pass East Project and provide baseline data for genetic connectivity change post-project. A hexagon grid approximating a small female wolverine home range was overlaid on the late-season snow model described in Copeland et al. 2010. Hexagons containing large amounts of late-season snow with areas outside congressionally designated wilderness and containing groomed snowmobile routes were selected for study effort. Two stations per hexagon and equal effort north and south of I-90 given available habitat ratio is the goal. Methods described in Magoun et al. 2011 are used to collect genotype and phenotype information from individual wolverines.
Project Caveats: This data only provides occupancy, the density of stations is too low to determine density or absence.
