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Northern Snowshoe Hares Eat Lots of Dirt

By Ned Rozell | Geophysical Institute on Aug 10, 2018 Featured, The Arctic and Alaska Science

The evidence is in: Snowshoe hares near Wiseman eat lots of dirt. “I have thousands and thousands of photos of hares eating soil in this one little spot,” said Donna DiFolco, a biologist and cartographer with the National Park Service. DiFolco has studied hares in the eastern portion of Gates of the Arctic National Park […]

Squirrels Somehow Predict Seed Bonanza

By Ned Rozell | Geophysical Institute on Mar 30, 2017 Featured, The Arctic and Alaska Science

Stan Boutin has climbed more than 5,000 spruce trees in the last 30 years. He’s fallen only once, and he has often returned to the forest floor knowing if a ball of twigs and moss contained newborn red squirrel pups. Over the years, those squirrels have taught Boutin and his colleagues many things, including their […]