Utah’s snowshoe hares turn up across the high Uinta and Wasatch ranges, the same high-elevation conifer forest that gives the species the deep, reliable snowpack its winter-white coat and oversized hind feet are built for. Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest, the Uinta Mountains, and Wasatch Mountain State Park anchor most of Utah’s 165 records.
Reports build steadily from spring and peak in July, with 34 sightings, when longer days and easier trail access likely put more hikers into hare habitat rather than marking any real summer high point for the animal itself. Utah’s snowshoe hare sits in the occasional tier for records here.
NatureServe ranks the species S3, Vulnerable, in Utah, a status tied partly to how far south and low this boreal hare’s Utah range sits relative to the rest of its continental range.
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