Black-tailed jackrabbit’s 38 Wyoming records concentrate around the Red Desert and Seedskadee National Wildlife Refuge, open sagebrush basins where this true hare relies on speed and camouflage rather than burrows to survive. Unlike cottontails, jackrabbits never den underground, instead resting in shallow surface forms, which makes them easy to overlook until they bolt.
Records show three separate peaks, January, May, and July, roughly matching winter tracking-in-snow surveys, spring breeding activity, and summer road counts. NatureServe ranks the species S5, Secure, in Wyoming, consistent with a hare built for the state’s driest, most open country.
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