Summary
As the New England cottontail moves closer to being federally protected under the Endangered Species Act, the state has taken action to protect the small brown rabbit in some of its last strongholds in southern Maine.
Once this species thrived from Kittery to Augusta and could be seen as far up the coastline as Knox County, so abundant that some towns' records speak of nuisance rabbits.See the full content of this document
Extract
State Closes Hunting of N.E. Cottontail
But today, with 75 percent of its historical habitat lost to highways and suburban developments ...
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