Audrey Magoun & Pat Valkenburg setting up one of their
wolverine stations in the Wallowas . . .

Just had breakfast at the Short Horn here in
Eagle Valley with Audrey Magoun. She leads,
together with her husband, Pat Valkenburg, the
Wallowa-Whitman Wolverine Project.

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Exciting new video and pictures!

The one above is of Stormy. Audrey is famous
for developing a unique system of identification
based on each individual's breastplate fur coloration
pattern. [see above] The wolverine is quickly climbing
to the top of my totem of inspirational critters,
especially in their amazing skill as winter mountaineers.
For all you Biomimicker's out there: make a synthetic
material that insulates so well that you can sleep right
on top of snow without one's body heat melting a hole.

Viva Gulo gulo!

[WATCHING: THEATER OF THE NEW project has added the
wonderful documentary, NATURE: WOLVERINE: Chasing the Phantom
(2010), featuring Pat and Audrey in their home territory of
Alaska, as well as Craig Sechler and Steve Kroschel

(streamed on NETFLIX)

NEWS REPORT of first tracks found, April the 17th, 2011

On the road in the American Northwest.

Featured gallery, mountain water . . . .

If you're a picture-poems fan, please visit my Living Water Gallery—some of
the best of my flowform photography w/ a selection of the highest quality
prints & frames . . . [ mouse over for controls / lower right fro full-screen ]

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(created: XI.19.2008)