There are a few animals that were probably present here but have been lost in the last hundred years or more. In this week’s Wildlife Matters , the Masked Biologist considers past records of the wolverine in Wisconsin. I guess it would be fair to say that the history of the wolverine in Wisconsin is not entirely clear. The records of reported observations or specimens seem to indicate that there were very few and infrequent wolverines present up to about 1870. According to Hartley Jackson’s