6 MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Oregon, Monday, April 14, 1958
Is That
Bv. EUGENE BURNS
Rjnger-Njruralist
The wolverine. Is he a mean,
diabolical, powerful animal?
Or is he an overpublicized,
tail-between-fhe-legs softy? ij
wrote a piece taking the for
mer point of view. I was call
ed by an Oakland sourdough
who said he had trapped many
a wolverine in Alaska and
that the animal was an out-
and-out coward. Today Armas
Lamp! of Billings, Mont.,
comes to my defense. He
writes:
"I take very much interest
In your column and have
meant to write before and
this wolverine controversy fi
nally roused me.
"What I am about to write I
have not gleaned sitting in the
roadhouses but from being out
on the trapline and at the
mercy of the elements.
"The wolverine being a
scavenger has evolved to the
point where he has a great po
tential for cunning and crafti
ness particularly inland in the
far northland.
"Several things make it
hard for a trapper to deal
with a wolverine. They are
constantly traveling; the wea
ther conditions in the Arctic
make it hard for a trapper to
make a weatherproof set; the
trapper seldom makes an out-and-out
play for the wolverine
tmL -snimaJ h?r "ired
his line and ravaged ft.
"First time out the young
wolverine perhaps is naive.
But after several lessons in
toe-pinchings (if he is lucky
enough not to get hooked the
first time and runs into traps
that are inefficient from being
choked with snow or steps in
the trap sideways, or runs into
small martin line traps) the
wolverine becomes smarter
and smarter.
"After his cunning develops
for several seasons and his
luck holds, then the wolver
ine may convince the exas
perated trapper that this ani
mal is truly the 'reincarnation
of the devil himself.'
Should Trail Ono
"Anyone doubting the wol
verine's strength and endur
ance need only to trail one as I
did. Everything seemed fa
vorable to me the trail
through the fresh snow looked
like a hog had wallowed
through. The going, obviously,
was tough for the wolverine.
As for me, I was young, in
wonderful condition, and my
snowshoes were the best for
that soft-snow condition. With
the odds in my favor, we went
all day with a full, head of
steam. When darkness came,
he was still ahead of me. I
might add, I spent a cold
night under a spruce and
never tried it again.
"Frankly, we didn't have
many wolverines on our trap
lines but those few did a lot
of damage. And of these, only
one was on his way to becom
ing full 'educated' and show
. ing signs of the diabolical
way in which his mind work
ed. I hope I have contributed
something."
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