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Except for the spruce-fir habitat along Deep Creek average snowshoe hare numbers per mile of <br />transect were well below what is considered to be a minimum population that would support <br />lynx. Even the numbers found along Deep Creek were at the lower limit of what is considered to <br />be minimum to support lynx. Given the number of hares required to support a lynx there would <br />not be enough hares to support a lynx over the course of a winter. <br />TABLE 1 <br />Number of snowshoe hare tracks observed by habitat type <br />Date MS & MS/ <br />As S/F/As R/MS . As Total <br />Dec 17, 2007 15 19 1 1 36 <br />Dec 31, 2007 7 3 1 11 <br />Jan 18, 2008 16 21 3 40 <br />Jan 31, 2008 8 11 19 <br />Feb 16, 2008 27 16 43 <br />Feb 26, 2008 21 13 4 1 39 <br />Mar 15, 2008 10 10 2 1 23 <br />Apr 11, 2008 14 2 16 <br />Total 118 95 11 3 227 <br />Total miles of <br />transect 221 24 18 8 271 <br />Average # <br />observed per <br />mile 0.53 3.96 0.61 0.38 0.84 <br />Percent of <br />observations <br />in each type 52% 42% 5% 1 % <br />Code for the habitat types is MS - Gambel oak-mountain shrub, As - Aspen, S/F/A - <br />Spruce-fir-aspen and R - Riparian. <br />10