Hey Folks,
OK, OK, OK .. no more silliness. I mean, this is a professional website, right? I’ll keep it together, I promise.
Here’s a REAL snowshoe hare photo, taken on my recent sojourn to the northern side of Wrangell – St. Elias National Park. I was very surprised at how little sign of snowshoe hares there was in this area – negligible. Everywhere else, it seems, the woods are crawling with them. This is at, or close to, the peak of the cycle for snowshoe hares; a 10 year population fluctuation that seems to be pretty consistent. Sometimes the cycle might be 9 years, or 11, but it’s not usually far off. The population rises steadily, then faster, peaks, and falls drastically, almost completely, in a single year. Ecologists aren’t sure as to what causes the drop in numbers, (more…)
