By Al Raychard Many years ago I owned a miniature beagle. I say miniature because on a hot trail in deep snow, she pushed it ...

While many people find themselves running away from the cold weather once winter arrives, and opting to book vacations that ...

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Whenever snow depths reach a certain point, writes Tom Lounsbury, snowshoes allow him to effectively walk on top of the snow instead of having to wade and slog through it.

We’ll wait for Christmas day.” That was the advice I told the crew of our Snowshoe Hare hunters. Two weeks before the opening ...

Winter is cold, winter is wind, winter is snow. Winter requires species to evolve, to respond to the snowpack to survive.

The ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus said, “it ever was, and is, and shall be, ever living fire, in measures being ...

Minnesota is home to the prolific cottontail rabbit, as well as two species of their relatives — the white-tailed jack rabbit ...

Winter with wildlife is a part of the Upper Peninsula’s charm. When old man winter turns our backyards into a winter ...

Winter transforms the American wilderness into a landscape of stark beauty and profound silence. Snow blankets the ground, ...

Only 21 species worldwide are known to do this, almost all in northern climates, according to an article in the journal ...

Perhaps most interesting of all, though, are the white rabbit’s great splayed hind feet, six inches long, four inches wide, ...