RABBITS AND HARES
Reforestation is greatly hampered by rabbits in cut-over areas where intermittent fires have killed all seedlings over a period of years. In many areas the snowshoe hare will eat off as many as 40 percent of the seedlings and damage up to 70 percent of them.
Rabbit-infested reforestation area—Olympic National Forest, Washington.
Damage to jackpine caused by snowshoe hares—Dukes, Michigan.
Healthy Norway pine. Snowshoe hare damage to pine and spruce seedlings at this stage of growth consists of nipping the terminal bud.
Spruce tree with lateral branches removed by snowshoe hares—Price County, Wisconsin.
Typical damage to cornfield by jack rabbits—Texas.