Lynx reintroduction program hindered by lack of hare research Colorado’s $3.5 million lynx-reintroduction effort was started before basic research was undertaken on the availability of its main prey, snowshoe hares, scientists now acknowledge after no new kittens were found for the second straight year. “Nobody did the hard work before the introduction to see of there’s enough prey,” said Kevin McKelvey, a Montana-based biologist who has recently studied snowshoe hare ecology in Wyoming. “There has always been the question: Are there enough snowshoe hares?” Just before the federal government listed lynx as threatened under the Endangered Species Act, the Colorado Division of Wildlife launched an ambitious program to bring the cats back to the state....