Canada’s Rocky Mountain front harbors the richest diversity of large mammals remaining in North America.  Maintaining landscape connectivity throughout the ecoregion has been the vision of the Yellowstone to Yukon (Y2Y) Conservation Initiative.  Roads and increasing vehicle use present some of the most severe human-caused impacts in the Y2Y region.  Increasingly, wolverines are seen as important bellwethers of ecosystem health, because they are highly sensitive to human disturbance (including transportation infrastructure) and vulnerable to climate change.  The Canadian portion of the Crown of the Continent ecosystem has been identified as crucial for wolverines to supply individuals and genes through dispersal to the highly fragmented and threatened population, yet there is very little basic information on wolverines in this critical linkage area.  This project will build on existing wolverine research in four other locations in the Central Canadian Rocky Mountains of Alberta.  Through this project, researchers will collect data to identify habitat needs and connectivity requirements for wolverines in the Highway 3 area.  Identifying dispersal corridors and linkages for safe passage across Highway  3 will address an obvious deficiency for a highway mitigation plan that encompasses the needs of this wide-ranging, rare-occurring species.