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Utah Division of Wildlife Resources biologists — with the help of sheepherders and other agencies — captured, collared and released a depredating wolverine in Rich County over the weekend.The wolverine was said to have attacked several sheep west of Randolph, according to a news release from the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources. The animal is now being GPS tracked in the Uinta Mountains.It’s the first wolverine captured by DWR biologists and the eighth confirmed sighting of a wolverine in the state since 1979, according to DWR spokesperson Faith Heaton Jolley.On March 10, according to...

Officials with the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources said ​it was just the eighth confirmed wolverine sighting in Utah since 1979.

It took two aircraft, two traps and over a dozen wounded sheep, but Utah biologists finally captured an animal they've searched decades for.\n

Utah Division of Wildlife Resources biologists — with the help of sheepherders and other agencies — captured, collared and released a depredating wolverine in Rich County over the weekend.

Biologists captured a wolverine near Randolph, Rich County, 43 years after the first documentation of a wolverine sighting in Utah. They’ve since placed a GPS tracking collar on the creature and let it back into the wild