By Tina Mitchell Deep snowpack in Colorado’s snowy, high-altitude coniferous forests chases most humans to lower altitudes during the winter. (At least during a good winter.) Yet the wildlife denizens of the deep snows – Canada lynx and snowshoe hares – continue their delicate dance unabated. Lynx feed primarily on snowshoe hares. More so than any other Colorado predator, lynx numbers cycle in tandem with snowshoe hares’ boom-and-bust pattern. With hares in abundance, lynx produce large litters and kitten survival rates bound upward. Eventually, the hares outstrip their food supply; their numbers plummet, followed by a drop in lynx numbers. ...