Hello! This is my first post in this forum. Last year I became a permanent resident in Canada and I am in the process of getting my PAL (paperwork is in the mail) and my hunting papers (doing the CORE course in a couple of weeks) in order. One of my favorite animals to go after are rabbits (and hares, I guess). I've hunted them with a .22 on the odd occasion, but I mostly snared them. The landscape I know them in are gently rolling hills with nothing but short grass and rocky cliffs and with trees only along the rivers and creeks in the bottom of the valleys.
Now I find myself in the heavily treed mountains in the Trail area and though I have seen the odd hare and rabbit cross the road, it is pretty obvious I know next to nothing about them here. I intend to go on some outings to try and find them and see how they behave until I can hunt them, but I'm not sure where to start. I figured cut blocks with some new growth would be a good place to start, but I don't really know.
Does anyone have advice on the little critters themselves, their numbers, behavior in this area (I might even make it up to the lower parts of 4-14 - 4-18 or the west part of 4-&), where to find (and hunt) them or where to go to find this information. Maybe I'll get some of this information during the CORE course, but I'm inpatient...
Thank you!
Ben