As climate change warms the Northeast, some snowshoe hares stay brown all year

By Duane Diefenbach, Adjunct Professor of Wildlife Ecology and Leader, Pennsylvania Cooperative Fish & Wildlife Research Unit, Pennsylvania State University. Denali National Park, Alaska. Tim Rains/NPS, CC BY The quintessential image of a snowshoe hare (Lepus americanus) is a pure white bunny – although it is a hare, not a rabbit – nestled in powdery snow,…