By Ruth Kamnitzer Open any ecology textbook and you’ll find the Canada lynx, the snowshoe hare, and their wildly oscillating population cycles offered as a classic example of the intimate relationship ...

The relationship between the snowshoe hare and the Canada lynx is a fascinating natural cycle that's been studied for decades. Now, advances in technology are revealing new passages in this ancient ...

A new study provides compelling evidence that Canada lynx populations in Interior Alaska experience a 'traveling population wave' affecting their reproduction, movement and survival. This discovery ...

THE FIRST WILD LYNX TO roam Colorado's San Juan Mountains in 25 years initially wanted nothing to do with the place. Surrounded by a clutch of biologists from the Colorado Division of Wildlife last ...

In the biting cold and snow-filled backcountry of the Seeley-Swan Valley, researchers from the University of Montana are looking for what should be nearly invisible. After all, snowshoe hares against ...

DULUTH — Though low in number and prone to fluctuating, Minnesota's Canada lynx population appears consistent with previous years, according to a 2024 U.S. Forest Service report and wildlife experts.

Derek Arnold, researcher at the University of Alaska Fairbanks Institute of Arctic Biology, carries a male lynx weighing around 24 pounds. It was captured in a log box trap near Stuver Cabin on the ...

“The pattern we’re maintaining is integral to all our species,” biologist Jens Hilke said. “It’s a matter of maintaining what we’ve got instead of building something new.” A Canada lynx spotted in ...

It’s long been known that snowshoe hare numbers in North American forests rise and fall dramatically in a predictable 10-year cycle. A year or two later, Canada lynx populations follow the same ...