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 ...

Recently I was reminiscing with friends about when we were young and the "four seasons" were trout, grouse, deer and white rabbit. It seems that most of us from the north country had beagles or hounds ...

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 ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... ASPEN — The snowshoe hare was way ahead of us. Literally and figuratively, it turned out, because naturalist Caroline Greene Hunt kept pointing out the ...

Friends that live up on Boreas Pass Road have a motion camera that videos many creatures that “go bump” in the night by their back deck. Recently its camera revealed a creature that goes “hop” in the ...

Before all the snow melted last week, I went snowshoeing at the Great Works Regional Land Trust’s Rocky Hills Preserve South Berwick. It was that day with close to zero temperatures. Not much was ...

On a recent warm spring day in New Hampshire’s White Mountains, wildlife biologist Alexej Siren found something exciting: snowshoe hare tracks in a fleeting patch of snow. “We have these larger hind ...

Chris Welch is a former senior reviewer who worked at The Verge from 2011 until May 2025. His coverage areas included audio (Sonos, Apple, Bose, Sony, etc.), home theater, smartphones, photography, ...

World-renowned artist and naturalist Robert Bateman shares one of his paintings with Times Colonist readers. Once again, we ...

From the southernmost tip of Chile to the frigid northern boundaries of Canada and Alaska, The Americas, narrated by Tom Hanks, takes viewers on an epic 10-part exploration of Earth’s largest ...

The number of hares in a forest is a good indicator of how healthy that ecosystem is -- and now there's a better way to find out. A new study shows recently developed camera-trapping methods could be ...

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