Ralph and Linda Lohse live at Kenny Lake near Copper Center, about 175 miles east of Anchorage. Lynx can and do move very LONG distances. The center of the North American range is in north-central Canada. An adult lynx can travel close to 1000 miles, swimming mighty rivers and climbing many mountains. This mirrors the presence of hares. An adult lynx can travel close to 1000 miles, swimming mighty rivers and climbing many mountains. Lynx are not present in southern Southeast Alaska, or on the major islands of Southeast (Admiralty, Baranof and Chichagof), and are considered scarce in northern Southeast Alaska.

They first saw the lynx on Oct. 16, 2016. Different from the Lower 48, lynx populations are present across mainland Alaska but are absent from the Aleutian Islands, Kodiak archipelago, the islands of the Bering Sea and some islands of Prince William Sound and Southeast Alaska. They travel from Alaska all the way across Yukon Territory to Northwest Territories in Canada before deciding to return to Yukon. There are naturally far fewer lynx at home in the contiguous U.S., where the majority of habitat "is poor, marginal, or suboptimal compared to the broad expanses of Canadian and Alaskan boreal forest where lynx really prosper," says Jim Zelenak, the lead recovery … A hungry lynx raiding a chicken coop in Southcentral Alaska provided some surprises for the couple that live-trapped it and the biologists that showed up to move it. Historically the lynx was found from Alaska across Canada and into the northern U.S. states. Lynx can and do move very LONG distances. The Canada lynx is protected under the Endangered Species Act as a threatened species. They travel from Alaska all the way across Yukon Territory to Northwest Territories in Canada before deciding to return to Yukon.