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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

N. ABINGTON TWP. – He headed out a few days after Christmas, with the weather cold, but not at all unbearable. Mike Leggiero of Gouldsboro, accompanied by his dog Stanley carefully worked the ...

November continued the trend of most of the year: above-normal temperatures and lower precipitation. It appears that the drought talked about so much this year is still going on. With virtually no ...

As winter loosens its grip on the northern states and it finally feels like spring, my mind turns to all the changes in nature. In particular, the animals in the northern climates that change the ...

LONG POND – It was the coldest day of winter in 2018, but it was also the opening day of the five-day Pennsylvania snowshoe hare season. So even the single digits and wind chill could not dissuade our ...

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