February 24, 2003         Last Quarter Moon                                                                                                             

Wildlife with a Seasonal Fashion Sense What is white in the winter, brown in the summer and available for dinner all year round? The snowshoe hare. This animal replaces its brown guard hairs with white in the autumn for camouflage in the normally snowy landscape it inhabits. In addition to enjoying its own rather active and, one would hope, fulfilling lifestyle, the snowshoe is an important food source for bobcats, red-tailed hawks, fox and owls. The snowshoe hare is found in mountainous section of northern portions of Pennsylvania such as WPC's protected Tamarack Swamp Natural Area. In the Allegheny Mountains of north central Pennsylvania the hare lives on steep, forested slopes vegetated by rhododendrom, hemlock and our state flower, the mountain laurel. .   E-mail Today's WPC Daily to a Friend! Friend's e-mail address: Your Message: Did you receive this WPC Daily from a friend? Want to get your own, every day? Click here to join the mailing list... More ways Western Pennsylvania Conservancy works to Save the Places We Care About  View WPC Daily for the month of January The polls are now closed for January's favorite WPC daily. Click here to see the projected winner (by an overwhelming margin)

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