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 ...

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

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 ...

This year, a biological force of nature bigger than a bull moose lives in the boreal forests of North America. It’s most visible around dawn and twilight. That’s when the biggest animals of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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