Have you seen Canada's most elusive creature?

From the Globe and Mail,

By Bruce Kirkby

Last week, Nikki Heim trudged through early-season snow in Banff National Park, collecting memory cards from cameras monitoring the 41 experimental underpasses and overpasses traversing the Trans-Canada Highway – the largest complex of wildlife-crossing structures in the world.

Later in the afternoon, the research assistant with the Highway Wilding project began the onerous job of viewing and logging thousands upon thousands of images. Many showed deer nibbling on brush near the camera, triggering the remote shutter with their movement. There were also plenty of grizzly, moose and cougars, which, after years of avoidance, now routinely use the structures.

Then, without warning, Nikki let out a lung-bursting scream of joy. On the chilly night of Nov. 16, at 1:09 a.m., a lone wolverine had scampered across an overpass near Sunshine Village Exit. After 15 years of monitoring, and more than 200,000 wildlife crossings, this was the first recorded use of an overpass by the wily wolverine species – and the gold seal of approval for the structures.

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