Whenever snow depths reach a certain point, writes Tom Lounsbury, snowshoes allow him to effectively walk on top of the snow instead of having to wade and slog through it.

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

Winter is cold, winter is wind, winter is snow. Winter requires species to evolve, to respond to the snowpack to survive.

Minnesota is home to the prolific cottontail rabbit, as well as two species of their relatives — the white-tailed jack rabbit ...