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Climate change now bigger menace than forest loss for snowshoe hares

Shorter winters along southern edge of the hares’ range worse than habitat bashing

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BAD TO WORSE  For snowshoe hares, climate change along the southern boundary of their range has become a worse menace than conservationists’ usual big fear.

L. Scott Mills Research Photo

By Susan Milius

- More than 2 years ago

For Wisconsin’s snowshoe hares, climate change now ranks as an even bigger menace than the bulldozing, paving and other destructive things people have done to northern forests.