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 ...

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 ...

Before all the snow melted last week, I went snowshoeing at the Great Works Regional Land Trust’s Rocky Hills Preserve South Berwick. It was that day with close to zero temperatures. Not much was ...

With little more than a week remaining in the 2016-17 hunting season, it seems an appropriate time to turn our attentions to the flighty cottontail rabbit and elusive snowshoe hare. Big game seasons ...

I have seen a lot of hare tracks when skiing at the Breckenridge Nordic Center especially around Beaver Meadows, but I have not been lucky enough to spot one. Their actual footprint is not clearly ...

EAGLE COUNTY – What do the high-elevation, sub-alpine forests and the low-elevation sagebrush shrub-lands of Eagle County have in common? Both places are inhabited by lots of rabbits and hares.Rabbits ...

Winchester sprang out of the willows with all four feet clearing the brush. Then he sprang up again, and this time, a white snowshoe hare sprang at the same time just ahead of him. He found the trail ...

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 ...

Researchers found an increasing mismatch between snowshoe hares' coats and their environment, making them more vulnerable to ...

When it began to get light outside the morning following our latest snowfall, the landscape was all white. And, as it always does, the snow brought in more birds than usual to the feeding areas, some ...