One of the many things I love about winter is the snow and the ability to track the animals that live in our backyards. It’s such an adventure to be able to go outside and discover who has been ...
Colorado’s $3.5 million lynx-reintroduction effort was started before basic research was undertaken on the availability of its main prey, snowshoe hares, scientists now acknowledge after no new ...
Recently I was reminiscing with friends about when we were young and the "four seasons" were trout, grouse, deer and white rabbit. It seems that most of us from the north country had beagles or hounds ...
In the high country, the brown snowshoe hare turns white in winter. Named for its extra-large, fur-bottomed hind feet, the snowshoe hare can clear 12 feet in a single jump and moves easily in Colorado ...
On a recent warm spring day in New Hampshire’s White Mountains, wildlife biologist Alexej Siren found something exciting: snowshoe hare tracks in a fleeting patch of snow. “We have these larger hind ...
Snowshoe hares in the Yukon’s Kluane area are increasingly standing out from their surroundings, according to a study published earlier this month — and researchers are wondering whether that will ...