The southern bog lemming is more closely related to the voles than to the true lemmings that inhabit higher latitudes. Grooved upper incisors and a relatively shorter tail, 17-21 mm (0.75 in), which ...

Despite their name, southern bog lemmings are not purely Southern, nor do they live only in bogs. They inhabit a large geographic range, from Manitoba east to the Atlantic Ocean, and as far south as ...

But bog lemmings here? I’ve never seen one. It turns out that there is more to this lemming business than meets the eye. The Southern Bog Lemming (Synaptomys cooperi) is listed in “Connecticut’s ...

The southern bog lemming lives in the eastern half of the continental range, and farther south into the Midwest. Lemmings are rodents, cousins of voles, shrews and mice.

They pointed me to a Southern bog lemming — a chunky brown rodent with stubby tail. This did not make sense to me. The bog lemming is uncommon in the state, listed as a Species of Special Concern.

The Center said there are only about 500 acres of mountain bog habitat remaining across the turtles’ southern territory. Additionally, the lawsuit includes a push for the protection of a small ...

The American bittern, according to the plan, is “critically imperiled”; the southern bog lemming is vulnerable and the Allegheny woodrat is “possibly extirpated,” or extinct.

About the time I began to attend the one-room Red Brick Academy in the coulee where I grew up, I first heard the strange word “lemming” — and the story ALONG THE TRAIL: Lemmings loom large ...

If you’ve never seen or heard of the southern bog lemming, you’re not alone. Although this small mammal scurries through our landscape year-round, it is elusive by nature. So elusive, in fact, that ...