For the snowshoe hare and the cottontail, this is not just imagination—it’s reality. These fascinating creatures illustrate ...

A Massachusetts man was sentenced to probation for running an illegal hare trapping operation in Maine. ... 36, of Attleboro, solicited Maine residents to trap snowshoe hares, court documents show.

Snowshoe hares usually feed in conifer cover, and tend to avoid open areas such as marshes, fields, and roads which may even act as barriers. They forage at dusk, and even more actively at dawn.

Snowshoe hares like to nibble on the protein-rich buds of young hardwoods, but especially spruce and fir. These 10- 15-year-old saplings have low, dense boughs that help the hares hide from predators.

As winter warriors, snowshoe hares have special adaptations to help them survive, as mentioned before, those big snowshoe feet that allow them to bound about on top of the snow and the ability to ...

The whitetail shakes his fuzzy ears and antlers.The snowshoe hare pokes his body out of the cedar swamp to find the edge of the gravel road. Then he rolls, twists and flops around on the dusty ground.

Snowshoe hares like to nibble on the protein-rich buds of young hardwoods, but especially spruce and fir. These 10- 15-year-old saplings have low, dense boughs that help the hares hide from predators.

Naturalist Caroline Greene Hunt leads the way up the Castle Creek drainage near Ashcroft. ASPEN — The snowshoe hare was way ahead of us. Literally and figuratively, it turned out, because ...

Snowshoe hare hunting is a great way to get some fresh air and exercise during the winter months while honing your hunting skills and marksmanship. Perhaps the best benefit is in the pot.

This snowshoe hare was hiding in high grass beside Dyers Bay Road on the Bruce Peninsula where I stopped to shoot photos of Sandhill cranes. My big foot landed on the little guy making him squeal ...

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 ...

As New England warms, snowshoe hares are increasingly finding themselves the wrong color for camouflaging with their environment. New England scientists are looking at some promising ways to help.