Thought to be extinct. So quit thinking.
TRUCKEE (AP) — Nearly a century after they were thought to be extinct in the Sierra Nevada, a wolverine has shown up for the third year in a row in the woods north of Lake Tahoe.
Scientists are doing new tests, but they believe it is the same one that a gradate student at the University of California’s Sagehen Field Station first spotted in February 2008 several miles north of where U.S. Interstate 80 crosses the Sierra near Truckee.
Reno Gazette Journal article