We’ll wait for Christmas day.” That was the advice I told the crew of our Snowshoe Hare hunters. Two weeks before the opening ...

The snowshoe hare has a coat for every occasion. Well, actually, just two coats for two occasions: a white one for winter and a brown one for summer. This special molting pattern helps the unassuming ...

The snowshoe hare is one of approximately 20 animals in the world that turn white in the winter, and it’s one that faces some serious concerns here in the Keystone State due to climate change and loss ...

Retired teacher Larry Weber, of Barnum, is the author of “Butterflies of the North Woods" and “Spiders of the North Woods," among other books. Reach him via Katie Rohman at [email protected]. A ...

The large hind feet, long ears, short tail, and typical rabbit shape distinguish this snowshoe hare, the only "rabbit" throughout much of the Adirondack Park. From mid-December until late April, the ...

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 ...

One of the predicted consequences of climate change is that in areas that regularly get snow, that precipitation will arrive later in the winter and melt earlier in the spring.While that may be great ...

Removing their white winter coat once kept snowshoe hares hidden in spring, but as the snows melt earlier, they are increasingly exposed. Can they fight back? IT IS midsummer in Montana. Traipsing ...

Tennessee Pass, between Minturn and Leadville, not only designates the separation of the Mosquito and Sawatch mountain ranges but it also parts the watersheds between the Colorado and Arkansas river ...

This experiment was designed to determine if winter browsing by snowshoe hares is a potentially important control over primary succession on floodplains of Alaskan rivers. In a 2 x 2 x 2 factorial ...

In Monty Python and the Holy Grail, there’s a killer rabbit that takes out three knights in one bloody scene. It’s hilarious because rabbits are so innocuous — or at least they used to be. New ...