Alaska has no wild rabbits. We only have hares: varying hares — we call them snowshoe hares — and Arctic hares. Arctic hares are the largest wild lagomorph — family of rabbits, hares and pikas — in ...
Biologists releasing an Alaska hare. (Alaska Department of Fish and Game photo) The Alaska Department of Fish and Game is studying Western Alaska’s dwindling population of Alaska hares, more commonly ...
It’s mid-February, and Parks and Rec hikers are headed up from Crow Hill Road to Lawson Meadows. The skiers soon disappeared, leaving the snowshoe-ers to plod our way up. The lead hikers got lucky — a ...
DONNELLY FLATS — The Interior's bunny population is on the rise. In a couple of winters' past, it was tough to find tracks of the little white critters. Now I spot two or three hares every time I'm ...
An Alaska hare perches on the tundra in the Yukon Delta National Wildlife Refuge on May 21, 2010. Alaska hares, which are much bigger than snowshoe hares, appear to be declining in population and are ...
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 ...