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Article: HARE'S BREADTH LYNX PROJECT SPURS EFFORT TO DETERMINE SNOWSHOE POPULATION.(Sports)(Column)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
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- February 8, 1998
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Byline: Ed Dentry Rocky Mountain News Outdoors Writer
So quiet you could hear a pine needle drop. In Colorado's wintry high-country forests a human visitor actually can hear the soft thumping of an unseen snowshoe hare on the move 40 yards away.
The tiny footfalls in deep snow are easily detectable in a spruce / fir forest where the only other sounds are the occasional croak of a raven and the silky swish of powder snow slipping from evergreen boughs.
Up near timberline the snowshoe hare is dressed in winter white, except for black tips on its ears and coal-black eyes. It is, perhaps, the safest time of year for a furry critter that is every ...