A group of Paul Smiths College students has spent the last few years studying one of the region’s smallest mammals. Bears, moose and loons... Apr 08, 2011 — A group of Paul Smiths College students has ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Shhh! Dylan O’Leary is hunting wabbits. Well, technically they’re snowshoe hares, about twice the size of cottontail rabbits. And he’s not using a shotgun but a long metal antenna. It picks up signals ...

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 ...

Species go extinct unless they can adapt to changes to their environment. And while the climate change caused by humans is often viewed as a future threat to wildlife, it's already having a measurable ...

The evidence is in: Snowshoe hares near Wiseman eat lots of dirt. "I have thousands and thousands of photos of hares eating soil in this one little spot," said Donna DiFolco, a biologist and ...

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