. Control of field rodents in California. Rodents; Mammals; Rodents. crop damage may be severe. Overgrazed lands tend to have larger jack rabbit pop- ulations than areas on which the grass cover is higher. SNOWSHOE RABBITS In the higher parts of the Sierra Ne- vada and in the northeastern plateau re- gion of California, there are two kinds of rabbits adapted to living on or in the snow during the winter months: the large white-tailed jack rabbit or Sierra hare (Lepus townsendi sierrae) and the smaller snowshoe rabbit (L. washing- tonii) ; both are hares. These, like the black-tailed jack rabbi
. Control of field rodents in California. Rodents; Mammals; Rodents. crop damage may be severe. Overgrazed lands tend to have larger jack rabbit pop- ulations than areas on which the grass cover is higher. SNOWSHOE RABBITS In the higher parts of the Sierra Ne- vada and in the northeastern plateau re- gion of California, there are two kinds of rabbits adapted to living on or in the snow during the winter months: the large white-tailed jack rabbit or Sierra hare (Lepus townsendi sierrae) and the smaller snowshoe rabbit (L. washing- tonii) ; both are hares. These, like the black-tailed jack rabbits, are surface dwellers. Their feet being densely covered with long fur, they can travel readily on snow. The tail of the snow-inhabiting rabbits is always white, and the animals themselves are white in winter. These ani- mals live where there is little intensive agriculture; they occasionally nibble the twigs and bark of apple trees during the winter months, and the snowshoe rabbit damages young forest Fig. 24. Common California rabbits. Left, black-tailed jack rabbit that lives in open country; head-and-body, 18 to 20 inches, ears about 6 inches long. Center, cottontail, common in stream- side thickets and pastures; length about 13 inches, ears 3 inches long. Right, brush rabbit, found close to bushes and chaparral in the foothills; length about 11 inches, ears 2% inches long. 45. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Storer, Tracy I. (Tracy Irwin), 1889-1973. Berkeley, Calif. : College of Agriculture, University of California
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