Minnesota is home to two varieties of the small mammal we simply refer to as rabbits. In Duluth we are in the midst of the overlapping ranges of those two animals. Their appearance is similar enough ...

Friends that live up on Boreas Pass Road have a motion camera that videos many creatures that “go bump” in the night by their back deck. Recently its camera revealed a creature that goes “hop” in the ...

A color-changing rabbit once found hopping through fields and forests across Michigan has become so rare, hunters choose not to shoot it. Not since the mid-1990s has a customer asked White Lake ...

Gary Hoskins at first thought Ohio’s attempt to reintroduce snowshoe rabbits in Northeast Ohio would be a hare today and gone tomorrow proposition. Yet even the manager of the Ohio Division of ...

The snow was deep and the air was cold as we tightened the harnesses on our snowshoes. It was winter in the great north woods. Many years ago, a fellow school teacher from Wells and I decided to hunt ...

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 ...

As winters have gotten shorter and warmer in northern forests, snowfall has decreased. That’s left snowshoe hares—which molt from brown to white with the seasons and glide over the snow on large ...

Snowshoe rabbits are actually medium-sized hares. Long ears and large, wide hind feet matted with hair differentiate the snowshoe hare from the cottontail rabbit. Four types of rabbits and three types ...

I knew we were in trouble when I saw the third snowshoe hare. It was almost noon on the first day of elk season back in early November. I had a knife, hunting rifle and adequate ammunition. Yet what I ...

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