The capture took a lot of planning. In the past 40 years, there have only been eight confirmed sightings of wolverines, according to officials.
"They're a small animal, but they have the ability to take down animals much bigger than they are," Hadley said.
Hadley said the wolverine recently got into a sheep herd in the area, killing or maiming 18 of them. The captured wolverine was fitted with a GPS collar and has since been released. "Now, with that collar on it, we will know exactly where its moving and when, where during different times of the year it's moving, and how far does it go when it moves," said Hadley."The opportunity to capture and be able to study an animal that we've wanted to know about for a long time, but that's so difficult to capture and get a GPS collar on, so you can track it, it's really cool to have been able to in some small to have been part of that," Hadley said.