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 ...

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 ...

That was the advice I told the crew of our Snowshoe Hare hunters. Two weeks before the opening of Snowshoe Hare season, which is always the week following Christmas Day, the weather forecast was ...

The coats of the snowshoe hares may change, but these creatures are cool all year round.

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 ...

Once they were so numerous, northern Minnesota homesteaders considered snowshoe hares a staple in their diet. If you tried to survive on hare hasenpfeffer today, you'd go hungry. For two decades hares ...

Mountain and snowshoe hares depend on seasonal coat color changes to stay hidden, but warmer winters are disrupting this natural rhythm. Shorter snow seasons mean more days when their white coats ...

Kelsey Haas poses with the snowshoe hare at Grewingk Glacier on Nov. 26, 2022. (Courtesy Kelsey Haas) It was late November and Homer resident Kelsey Haas was skating to the Grewingk Glacier with a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I stood at the edge of a snow-choked evergreen swamp, slowly congealing and thinking moodily how much white-rabbit hunting has in ...

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 ...