The small rabbit relatives are also sensitive — considered a “climate indicator species.” Their health can signal what’s to come for everyone.

Karli Weatherill was a Colorado Mesa University sophomore when she showed up at the office of Johanna Varner and voiced an interest in doing scientific research in the mountains. As it happened, ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... At Mesa Verde National Park, a trailside sign invites visitors to gaze across the canyon at a stone-masonry tower on the neighboring Ute Mountain Ute ...