Snowshoes have a 10 year cycle of them being everywhere and then being scarce. We use to hunt them in Alaska and Montana and yes they were much easier to see if a big warm spell came through. That was 30 years ago. 11 years ago in Montana you couldn’t go anywhere without running them over. Last year we could hardly find one and this year they are coming back fast.
Great article here to help understand Gods creation, earth and the cycle of boom and bust and not a “natural balance” the lefties want people to believe. It’s happening now with the moose on the central Kenai Peninsula. All the forest burns matured and now there is no food. Hence, no moose. http://bio.fsu.edu/~james/krebs.pdf
Rabbits, hare, field mice, quail, etc can explode or collapse. Followed by the bobcats and coyotes. There is/was a lot of dryland cotton farming in that area so those creatures called yellow cotton bales can explode and collapse with the rainfall also.
When the hawks migrate in from a cool wet summer up north to a drought year in texas a large population of hawks will collapse quickly.
For many years I recreated on Weyerhauser timberlands in Ark. When they stopped grazing those lands it was amazing how fast the rabbit and quail population exploded.