Jack rabbits/European hare

[Jacobarchery7]

Is anyone else noticing more and more jack rabbits around or is it just me. Through my travels and hunts in the past 3 years I've seen some in the kawartha lakes, Perth/huron County and grey/dufferin County. Never bagged any just happy to see them around and coming back.
I wonder if the milder winters are doing good for them?

[Marker]

The numbers seem to spike once every 10 years, this is just personal observation. Lots of cottontails in the South, I see them a lot in my yard and streets but the City has been keeping the yote numbers down. The yotes in the forested tracts I hunt seem to be just as active as always.

[sabmgb]

I haven't seen a rabbit or a track in years in the bush. I have seen lots of coyotes and their tracks in the bush.

[G.S.]

I have only seen a road kill in Dufferin area recently. The snow will show Jack's tracks around where I hunt, hopefully

[Frank16]

The last time I saw a jack was in 2021.

[finsfurfeathers]

The last time I saw a jack was in 2021.

My prediction those who go for a walk the first calm sunny day after this lake effect snow ends will report positive findings

[Frank16]

WE have taken many walks after a fresh snow fall in the last 3 years with no tracks to be found. Pretty sad! It has gotten to the point that if we see no tracks crossing roads into the fields we keep driving.

[Gilroy]

Is anyone else noticing more and more jack rabbits around or is it just me. Through my travels and hunts in the past 3 years I've seen some in the kawartha lakes, Perth/huron County and grey/dufferin County. Never bagged any just happy to see them around and coming back.
I wonder if the milder winters are doing good for them?

Might seem like an outlandish proposition on my behalf but maybe we should all have though of some type of CONSERVATION program to help this species recover years ago when they were going rapidly downhill. Like the Moose population nobody seemed to take much notice of the declined until there were no more to hunt.

Seems a terrible shame that with the OFAH, MNR, technology, and all the science we have at our disposal were are in this position.

Its really pretty amazing that from a healthy population back in the 1970,s where most of us could spot these hares just north of the GTA to today where they are almost all gone.

[finsfurfeathers]

Might seem like an outlandish proposition on my behalf but maybe we should all have though of some type of CONSERVATION program to help this species recover years ago when they were going rapidly downhill. Like the Moose population nobody seemed to take much notice of the declined until there were no more to hunt.

Seems a terrible shame that with the OFAH, MNR, technology, and all the science we have at our disposal were are in this position.

Its really pretty amazing that from a healthy population back in the 1970,s where most of us could spot these hares just north of the GTA to today where they are almost all gone.

The solution would of been to prohibit private land owners (farmers) from maximizing their income by clearing fence rows and switching to large acreage farming. Wasn't and won't happen as nobody is going to take a financial loss for the environment.

[Articcat]

They seem to be rebounding in Dufferin county
With the light snow we had last night seen a few tracks crossing the road this while walking the dogs
Seen lots in last couple of years but have yet to bag one