White-tailed jackrabbit records in Utah cluster in the state’s far north, the Bear Lake valley, sagebrush uplands near the Bear River Range, and high country within Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest, open, brushy terrain with the sightlines this hare needs to outrun coyotes and hawks at a dead run.
Records don’t show one clean seasonal peak. Instead, counts stay fairly even across January, May, July, and December, with a real winter uptick that likely reflects how visible this hare’s white coat becomes against snow rather than a true change in activity. NatureServe lists it S3 Vulnerable in Utah, consistent with a species whose range has been shrinking nationally as prairie converts to cropland and the smaller black-tailed jackrabbit spreads into its territory.
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