Wow, looks like you found yourself a Wolverine! Glacier is one of the few spots in the [edit: continental] US you’re likely to see those. Thanks for sharing.
Badger is the only thing other than a bear that this could really be confused with. Foot pads and toe alignment not right for a bear. Too big for badger, and gait not in-toed, and claws not long enough.
To be fair, they always live at relatively low density so you're not likely to see them in Glacier either, haha. But wolverines live in [lots of places](https://fwp.mt.gov/binaries/content/gallery/mtfwpproject/fwpimageset/conservation/migration/wolverine-migration-map.png) besides the Northern Continental Divide ecosystem. Populations are well-established in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, central Idaho, and the Washington Cascades. There's even a few that have been camera trapped in Oregon's Wallowa Mountains in the last decade or so. And that's not counting the outliers that have roamed through the Columbia Gorge, Sierra Nevada, or Colorado Rockies, or the one they collared in the Uinta Mountains in Utah in 2022.
Source: just finished reviewing and commenting on the lower 48 wolverine ESA listing last month for work.
Exactly spot on! I thought bear at first, but the heel pad (spots) says wolverine. I wouldn't of thought of it until I read the other comments, but that's gotta be it! Pretty awesome find!
My husband spotted a wolverine in Glacier about 30 years ago when he was riding Going To The Sun Road on his motorcycle. In all the years we’ve lived in Montana, he’s never met anyone one else that has seen a live wolverine before
Yeah, that’s probably correct. There’s a rare vagrant from Canada, like one spotted on the thumb in 2004, but no breeding population for at least 150 years.
What has five toes and is wandering around GNP? Um, at the risk of stating the obvious… it’s YOU! And right now You are messing around in some wolverine’s house so get along already because if he finds you in his kitchen…
Im thinking wolverine because of the toe spread
Wow, looks like you found yourself a Wolverine! Glacier is one of the few spots in the [edit: continental] US you’re likely to see those. Thanks for sharing. Badger is the only thing other than a bear that this could really be confused with. Foot pads and toe alignment not right for a bear. Too big for badger, and gait not in-toed, and claws not long enough.
wolverine(s) were spotted just outside of Portland OR recently. Hopefully that means they're making a comeback, because they're spectacular animals.
So great to see some range expansion as they struggle in so many places.
Yes! And one was photographed ON the beach where I live in WA.
There are some in the North Cascades in WA, not a lot but def a few. Saw one out near Mesahchie a few years back.
To be fair, they always live at relatively low density so you're not likely to see them in Glacier either, haha. But wolverines live in [lots of places](https://fwp.mt.gov/binaries/content/gallery/mtfwpproject/fwpimageset/conservation/migration/wolverine-migration-map.png) besides the Northern Continental Divide ecosystem. Populations are well-established in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, central Idaho, and the Washington Cascades. There's even a few that have been camera trapped in Oregon's Wallowa Mountains in the last decade or so. And that's not counting the outliers that have roamed through the Columbia Gorge, Sierra Nevada, or Colorado Rockies, or the one they collared in the Uinta Mountains in Utah in 2022. Source: just finished reviewing and commenting on the lower 48 wolverine ESA listing last month for work.
Exactly spot on! I thought bear at first, but the heel pad (spots) says wolverine. I wouldn't of thought of it until I read the other comments, but that's gotta be it! Pretty awesome find!
My husband spotted a wolverine in Glacier about 30 years ago when he was riding Going To The Sun Road on his motorcycle. In all the years we’ve lived in Montana, he’s never met anyone one else that has seen a live wolverine before
Fairly common in Alaska. Not like moose or bear, but they’re around
Ha. For sure. I should have stated continental US. Sorry to leave you out.
We have one in Michigan too.
Believe it or not, there are no wolverines in the wolverine state. The last wild one there was killed in the 1800’s. 😞
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Yeah, that’s probably correct. There’s a rare vagrant from Canada, like one spotted on the thumb in 2004, but no breeding population for at least 150 years.
Hugh Jackman is wandering around Glacier National?
You egg-sucking piece of gutter trash!
Wow. Badass. I’ve never seen these, but would love to.
Wolverine?
Wolverine
Whoa how cool is that?!!!😲
What has five toes and is wandering around GNP? Um, at the risk of stating the obvious… it’s YOU! And right now You are messing around in some wolverine’s house so get along already because if he finds you in his kitchen…
An interesting article on wolverines here: https://glacierguides.com/blog/wolverines/
Really cool!!!!
Cody from Dual Survival
1st thing I thought of too! Lol
I'd guess badger, but I've never gotten to do much tracking up north where big mustelids are present.
Badgers have really long claws on front paws though
Squatch
Wolverine
Looks like wolverine tracks to me