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THE VIRGINIA Wildlife Research Unit at Blacksburg will release up to 300 snowshoe hare in selected portions of Giles County during the next two winters to determine if this interesting game animal can be reestablished, reports Dr. Burd S. McGinnes, Unit Leader.
The animals will be released at high elevations near No Business Creek, Dismal Creek, the North Fork of Stony Creek, Max Meadows and Man’s Bog near Mountain Lake.
Beginning December 9 some 20 to 25 hare were released at each site with similar follow-up releases scheduled for March, 1973 and March, 1974. Each animal bears a colored plastic ear tag attached with an aluminum rivet marked VPI. Some of the hare will have radio transmitters attached.
Persons who see these animals or recoveir tags are urged to contact VPI or the Game Commission.
THE SNOWSHOE or varying hare apparently was
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