Recently I was reminiscing with friends about when we were young and the "four seasons" were trout, grouse, deer and white rabbit. It seems that most of us from the north country had beagles or hounds ...

A snowshoe hare darts into the brush on a logging road in northwest Maine. Its dark brown coats changes to white once the days get shorter and winter nears. Andy Molloy/Kennebec Journal Sitting ...

Did you know that New Hampshire beagle clubs are allowed to capture wild snowshoe hares for training hunting dogs? After capture, they are transported to unfamiliar terrain, kept in fenced-in ...

Did you know that the N.H. Fish and Game Department allows the capture of our wild snowshoe hares so that they may be used as live tools for training beagles on how to assist in hare hunting? N.H.

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That was the advice I told the crew of our Snowshoe Hare hunters. Two weeks before the opening of Snowshoe Hare season, which is always the week following Christmas Day, the weather forecast was ...