Hunters are being asked to help monitor snowshoe hare populations so the Pennsylvania Game Commission can gain a greater understanding of where hares exist on the landscape, and whether they are turning white in winter as expected.
Loss of suitable habitat, population fragmentation, and variable winter conditions where there is sometimes little snow threatens the species, which is now thought to be declining in Pennsylvania, and has again been listed as a species of greatest conservation need.
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