Snowshoe hares While it may not be easy to spot a snowshoe hare in the wild when they are camouflaged against the snow, their tracks are another matter. Almost comically obvious, the prints are made ...

Winter is cold, winter is wind, winter is snow. Winter requires species to evolve, to respond to the snowpack to survive.

Four of them live in Colorado: snowshoe hares, white-tailed ptarmigan, short-tailed weasels and long-tailed weasels.

Winter transforms the American wilderness into a landscape of stark beauty and profound silence. Snow blankets the ground, muffling sound and creating a clean slate that records the passage of every ...

We’ll wait for Christmas day.” That was the advice I told the crew of our Snowshoe Hare hunters. Two weeks before the opening ...

This story, “Snowshoe Runaround,” appeared in the December 1962 issue of Outdoor Life. I stood at the edge of a snow-choked evergreen swamp, slowly congealing and thinking moodily how much ...

I stood at the edge of a snow-choked evergreen swamp, slowly congealing and thinking moodily how much white-rabbit hunting has in common with ice fishing, another glacial activity in which I find ...

By Al Raychard Many years ago I owned a miniature beagle. I say miniature because on a hot trail in deep snow, she pushed it ...

Customs and Border Protection officials at Chicago O'Hare International Airport seized some very odd items from a passenger's suitcase last week. In a post to X.com, CBP said that a passenger from ...

If you’re looking for an active winter vacation, there are two strategies: Head toward the snow and cold to ski, sled, and skate; or get as far away from the white stuff as possible. At these nine ...

BRILLION (WLUK) -- The 2025 World Snowshoe Championships got underway Friday, with hundreds of competitors gathering at the Ariens Nordic Center in Brillion. “It is the annual culmination of all the ...

The Forest Revealed details the flora and fauna that can be found in New England during every month of the year. I had been keeping my journal for a year or two when I started the project. I had tons ...