Hare provides the best meat of any furred game to roam the earth and is a quarry that excites debate and great interest. It was off the quarry list for many and for a long time with good reason, for the brown hare was in decline in many parts of the UK during the 1970s, 80s and 90s. Even now, in some places it has struggled to make a comeback.
The brown hare, Lepus europaeus, is not England’s native hare — that is L timidus, known variously as the blue, mountain, white, snow, arctic or alpine hare. Timidus is said to have arrived with the Romans then made itself at home, rapidly displacing the smaller and more elusive locals. The brown hare is native to Scotland.
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