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Because the hare reproduces quickly, population densities can range from 1 to 10,000 hare per square mile.

The snowshoe hare's cold-weather coat has 27% more insulating value than its summer coat.

In 1865, Hudson's Bay Company traders were flooded by hare pelts brought in by trappers; by 1870, only a few trickled in. The pattern repeated itself over and over, roughly every ten years -- 'the cycle' was evident even then.

In the winter of 1922-23, there were so many hares that Yukoners could step outside and hear the munching, crunching drone of hares devouring hay piles after depleting their natural foods.

So tied to its favourite food is the lynx that crashes in hare numbers may send it ranging hundreds of kilometres in search of hares.

Snowshoes are not a popular game species; only about 3% of the population is shot during peak years. During the mid-1970’s, for example, in Wisconsin approximately 57,000 hunters spent about 274,000 hunter-days persuing snowshoe hares. This effort resulted in an average harvest of about 151,000 hares annually. The 1982 snowshoe harvest numbered 163,755.

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