Defenders' Experts
Lynx Background and Recovery
Lynx have been eliminated from much of their historic range in the lower-48 states. Today small populations remain only in portions of Maine, the Great Lakes states, the northern Rockies/Cascades region, and Colorado – thanks to a reintroduction program.
See map of primary lynx habitat.
Lynx are unusual because their diet is primarily one thing – the snowshoe hare. If the hare populations plummet so do the lynx. Thus, lynx depend on forests with thick vegetation that provide cover and browse for snowshoe hares. Lynx also need forests with lots of debris on the ground for denning and raising their young, which are often found in older forests.
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