Kansas definately gets those type of years. Kansas climate is very windy and typically hot or cold now but nothing in-between most of the time. When i.was a kid we learned where to go hang out during times of the year or times of the day. In the heat we headed for the north side of structures or woods. In the cold we headed for the southern slopes and stayed off the hilltops. Survival here is about being good at it. There are plenty of houses here now but once in awhile I miss my childhood when it was just us with few people here. The animals were plentiful and restrictions were few. Now new people have came here and tell us all how they think we should live on a land they know nothing about. Given time Kansas becomes a desert and then turns into a flooded area with an abundance of water. The weather pattern rotates back and forth every 5 years. All My life I have seen people come and go from this land. Rabbits girdle trees when they need to. Typically that is only when everything is under snow here. The rabbits in the photos above are following the rules of stripping bark when they can’t get to grass because of heavy snow. If you understand a rabbits behavior you know what they will do. I would have cut them some branches or trees that they would not starve. See the thread below.
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