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 ...