Looks like things may have changed. The head of the USFWS decided says the theory that climate change will affect wolverine populations sometime in the future is too unproven to declare them endangered. This means the Montana FWP doesn't have any reason to end the season.
Of course, there's a big hue and cry among the climate change folks who were lobbying for the designation.
Yeah, that's what that 20+ page "memo" was saying--and the regional director went to great lengths to back it up. That memo read more a full blown literature review.
Casey
