During the biathlon, participants shoot as they go through a snowshoe course. |
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Earlier successional forest stages provide habitat for the lynx's primary prey, the snowshoe hare. |
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Populations of snowshoe hares also fluctuate dramatically over approximately ten-year periods, increasing a thousandfold, then crashing. |
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Located on the ridge above Galena, three backcountry yurts are accessible by a short ski or snowshoe. |
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The maker of this elaborate snowshoe has created geometric designs in the babiche weaving using black and red paint. |
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The polished brass arm and wall plate reflect the warm varnished wood and babiche tones of both the snowshoe and parchment shade. |
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Lynx feed on squirrels, birds and other small prey, but snowshoe hares are the mainstays of their diet. |
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In the case of the snowshoe, it supports against the potentially deadly snow, and allows the wearer to move about and hunt, thus giving life. |
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I was gazing at the sky when a small, white, snowshoe rabbit hopped in front of me. |
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Populations of some species, such as snowshoe hares, are kept in check largely by food limitation, while others are controlled by predation. |
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Squirrels, snowshoe hares, grouse, corvids, woodpeckers, and other medium to large songbirds are all potential prey of the goshawk. |
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Isolated and wild, the North Fork Valley houses moose and wolves along with pine marten, snowshoe hare and mountain lion. |
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In camp, entertainment by chipmunks, red squirrels, whisky jacks, and snowshoe hares will keep you chuckling. |
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The snowshoe club socials also re-created the Beaver Club meetings held in Montreal in the winter season. |
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Some hares include the common hare, the jack rabbit, the Arctic hare, the snowshoe hare, the European hare, and the blue hare. |
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Grivel worked some real magic to produce a snowshoe that expands to fit different foot sizes and adjusts for more or less floatation. |
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In some patches of my woods in Maine, I can hardly find a single sapling that is untouched by moose, deer, or snowshoe hares. |
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The Center offers up 20 kilometers of groomed trails for skate or classic skiing as well as separate snowshoe trails. |
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Dog sled and snowshoe races were also held when the Arctic winter night drew to an end, enhancing the endurance of a resilient people. |
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Whitetail deer, coyote, red fox, snowshoe hare and raccoon often make appearances. |
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Summer walkers and hikers snowshoe to take advantage of their favorite hikes in the winter. |
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For example, if a team chose to bike and snowshoe, they were required to carry their bikes with them as they snowshoed, and vice versa. |
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Take a guided tour with the Hyatt's ski ambassador, snowshoe beneath the aspens, or ice-skate under the stars in Beaver Creek Village. |
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In Alaska, the snowshoe hare follows a 10 year cycle, closely tracked by several predators. |
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Three species of hares are native to California, the snowshoe, black-tailed, and white-tailed. |
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Ski lifts will soon be built in this beautiful basin, so now is the time to snowshoe here. |
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Apart from skiing, you can snowmobile, cross-country ski, snowshoe or dogsled. |
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Tough, stylish, and super comfy, this leather slip-on is the perfect after-sport snowshoe. |
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Their principle source of food is mice, but squirrels, snowshoe hares, and pikas are also popular. |
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To test these predictions we examined the seasonably variable response of snowshoe hares to moonlight and predation risk. |
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The species of interest include voles, shrews, mice, moles, chipmunks, squirrels, lemmings, rats, and snowshoe hare. |
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Take off your heavy boots, throw on some mukluks and snowshoe under a veil of northern lights. |
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Women began riding in fox hunts, joining snowshoe clubs, lacing on figure skates and running in foot races. |
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Traditionally, snowshoe webbing was made of caribou, deer or moose babiche, but the lacing on this one is made of cow babiche. |
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In peak population years, snowshoe hares may kill saplings and shrubs by girdling, or taking rings of bark from the plants. |
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Hardly, since it was in the middle of winter... we were going to do some snowshoe hiking and took off in the direction of Le Cerneux-au-Maire. |
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Organize a hike, snowshoe, cross-country ski, jog, or ice skate along an historic trail or within an historic park. |
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This snowshoe trek and ice climbing experience is planned in small group up to 5 people. |
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Other wildlife includes arctic and red fox, arctic ground squirrel, arctic and snowshoe hare, lynx, wolf, wolverine and muskrat. |
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Tracks of squirrel, weasel, coyote, rabbit, ruffed grouse, and mice are common, says Alison Adams, who runs snowshoe hikes in Harbor Springs, Michigan. |
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Well-adapted to its environment, the snowshoe hare travels on large, generously furred hind feet, which allow it to move easily over the snow. |
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Since it will be used to make rawhide sinew for snowshoes, parts of the hide are chosen to suit different sections of the snowshoe. |
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Obviously the entire snowshoe can't be laced with a single length of sinew. |
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Use the Amis de la Montagne guide for an exploratory snowshoe hike along the mountain's flanks, tracking animals and listening to birdcalls. |
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It is illegal to use stainless steel wire for snaring snowshoe hare in Nova Scotia. |
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Activities included free ski and snowshoe equipment tryouts, free introductory crosscountry ski lessons, and children's games. |
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In the 19th century, Huron-Wendat snowshoe makers decorated their frames with red wool pompons. |
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If it is threatened, the snowshoe hare may freeze to take advantage of its camouflaging coloration, or it may flee. |
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The size of the home range varies with numbers of lynxes and snowshoe hares in the area, available cover, and season. |
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Other animals seen in the woods include deer, beavers, muskrats, minks, otters, snowshoe hares, red foxes, woodchucks, raccoons, and chipmunks. |
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You have managed to snare a few snowshoe hare and voles, which you'd like to eat on sandwiches. |
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When large numbers of meadow voles and snowshoe hares provide abundant food for the owl, the size of the clutch increases. |
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And later, we're happy to see people from the snowshoe program coming back to the park with their families. |
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Although most excursions took place during the day, evenings were fine for snowshoe strolls in charming company! |
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Some areas have separate snowshoe trails or you can share trails with skiers as long as you don't walk in their tracks. |
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Alberta has a host of operators that provide cross country and snowshoe adventures. |
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For example, the Arctic hare is the dominant species harvested in the ISR while the snowshoe hare is the major hare species collected elsewhere. |
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We suggest that these results may be analogous to the stress-induced changes in the mortality levels of snowshoe hares in the presence of predatory lynx. |
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One location to access a designated snowshoe trail. |
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My wife, Susan, and I and our friends Steve and Karen Lucas had driven up from the Twin Cities to snowshoe and bushwhack the trails and lakes of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in northern Minnesota. |
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It took one day to make this kind of snowshoe. |
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Enjoy a hike, snowshoe or ski in the breathtaking beauty of Gatineau Park, a nature reserve with hundreds of kilometres of trails, just 15 minutes from Ottawa. |
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The village provides many open air activities in both summer and winter: paragliding, horse riding, waymarked hiking, rock climbing, river or pond fishing, cross-country skiing, snowshoe hiking, etc. |
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The snowshoe hare has a brown coat in summer and a white coat in winter. |
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Visit a cross country ski or snowshoe area and rent a pair of shoes. |
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David traveled on foot, by snowshoe, and by canoe for this trip. |
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The Canadian zone mammals include the mountain weasel, snowshoe hare, and several species of chipmunks. |
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Bundle up, brave the outdoors and get moving by taking a walk on your lunch break, ice skating at an outside rink or hitting the ski or snowshoe trails at the weekend. |
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One is known as mitten paws and the other as patty feet or snowshoe. |
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The snowshoe hare is also well suited to flourishing in the boreal. |
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Tularemia, a fulminating bacterial infection in the snowshoe hare: the bacteria spread throughout the organism and causes inflammation and necrosis. |
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Moose, wolf, snowshoe hare, martin, spruce grouse and other boreal species intermix with species more typical of southern areas such as the cardinal, white-tailed deer and raccoon. |
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Whether it is by boat, by plane, by helicopter or by snowmobile and snowshoe, it is difficult for the member to do his work because besides that, he has to go to Ottawa. |
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A common strategy is to lie in wait beside the well-used trails, or runways, of the snowshoe hare. Success usually depends on whether the lynx manages to capture the hare at one bound-about 6.5 m or four hops for the hare. |
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The glory days of the snowshoe were short-lived. |
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Sugar bush highlights include horse-drawn sleigh rides, free taffy on the snow, log sawing contests, snowshoe and plank races, nature trail walks, clog and old-time square dancing, music and much, much more. |
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An exception occurs on the island of Newfoundland. After people introduced the snowshoe hare to the island in the 1870s, lynxes began to prey on caribou calves when snowshoe hares became scarce. |
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Activities included ski and snowshoe equipment tryouts. |
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Please note that you do not need a park pass to use a snowmobile to access the domestic timber harvest blocks for the purposes of cutting wood or snaring snowshoe hare. |
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In the second case, snowshoe hare declines in northern Canada and Alaska may force goshawks to migrate south. |
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Guided by the wise suggestion of a snowshoe hare, they follow the blinking star to a television studio on the city's outskirts. |
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But with a penchant for snowshoe hares, lynx thrive in the expansive boreal forests of Alaska and central Canada where hares are most abundant. |
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In my woodlot in the western mountains of Maine, snowshoe hares are a big problem. |
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At the time, scientists attributed the shrinking lynx population to a decline in the number of snowshoe hares, the primary food of the lynx. |
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Jake Thamm and Tamara Laug went snowshoeing in 1997 and the experience led the husband-and-wife team to start a snowshoe company. |
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Most migratory patterns of mammals are part of a recurrent annual cycle, but the irruptive emigrations of lemmings and snowshoe hares are largely acyclic responses to population pressure on food supplies. |
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This incredibly comfortable, good-looking stretch pant will take you from the snowshoe trail in winter to the campsite in summer without missing a step. |
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Open year-round, the Interpretive Centre also welcomes group tours and school visits for programs like canoe excursions, snowshoe walks, and everyone's favourite: critter dipping! |
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It is a mainstay in larders of Aboriginal peoples, and on the island of Newfoundland, where it was introduced in the 1870s, thousands of snowshoe hares are snared each year for meat, and they are sold in markets. |
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The snowshoe fur padding has always been present but, since foundation Maines actually walk around outside in Maine, going about their cat lives, the snowshoes get worn down. |
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Similarly, in Canada the indigenous snowshoe was essential footwear, and many hunters and trappers adopted fringe on their deerskin tunics as a practical embellishment that helped rain to run off the garment. |
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The small animals seen most commonly include the eastern grey squirrel, the snowshoe hare, the groundhog, the skunk, the raccoon, the chipmunk and the Canadian beaver. |
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Camphor from juvenile white spruce as an antifeedant for snowshoe hares. |
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Maybe it was the snowshoe hare they caught and killed a few minutes after my host and guide, Mike Williams, and I stepped into the dog hair popple. |
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The snowshoe hare, for instance, appears to rely on changes in day length to signal when to transform its coat color from winter white to summer brown. |
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Pinosylvin methyl ether deters snowshoe hare feeding on green alder. |
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None-the-less, the day did come when I caught my first snowshoe hare. |
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Webb listed snowball target practice, a snowshoe obstacle race, and the smoosh race, which features four-person teams whose feet are strapped to eight-foot-long two-by-fours. |
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