Mission intro:
Hello, my name is Joe. I’m a biologist. I’m running a project on climate changes and I focus on species overlapping. I have heard some colleague of mine, while visiting the dean to get research grants, talking about seeing snowshoe hare where there should be arctic hare. I need to get evidences before him. I need you to do the hunting for me, since I will probably need to stay in the shack to conduct some experiments.
Missions 1: Smelly Evidence
Description: Before the plane leaves us, we must find some evidence that there are snowshoe hare in the region. Find something containing DNA that the plane can bring back, but kill nothing before we are sure of anything. Try not to freeze to death.
Objectives:
- ID droppings from a snowshoe hare
- In the same hunt, ID more droppings from a snowshoe hare
Mission 2: Finding the Intruder
Description: The lab confirmed that the «evidences» you found were «produced» by snowshoe hare. We need some specimen so I can check their health to see if they can be a threat to the indigenous arctic hare.
Objectives:
- Harvest a snowshoe hare
- Harvest another snowshoe hare
Mission 3: The Tortoise and the Hare
Description: «To win a race, the swiftest of a dart
Availeth not without a timely start»
Forget everything La Fontaine said, we must act fast. Just run for this one. We need efficiency. Kill them as fast as you can.
Objectives:
- Harvest a snowshoe hare 5 minutes after another
Mission 4: Don’t Save the Queens
Description:There is too much of them. They are everywhere, I can’t remember when I last saw an arctic hare. We need to stop their population growing.
Objectives:
- Harvest a female snowshoe hare
- Harvest another female snowshoe hare
- Harvest another female snowshoe hare
Mission 5: Any other hare around?
Description: Have you seen any arctic hare since we are here? I think the snowshoe hare population has totally replaced them. Snowshoe hare were looking healthy, so maybe they had fully substituted arctic hare in the ecosystem. We need to look for clues about this hypothesis.
Objectives:
- Spot a snowshoe hare
- Spot another snowshoe hare in the same hunt
- Spot another snowshoe hare in the same hunt
- Spot another snowshoe hare in the same hunt
- Spot another snowshoe hare in the same hunt
Mission 6: Something to eat
Description: The plane was supposed to be back two days ago, and the reserve of food is getting low. Maybe we could snatch some of these hare for ourselves. But we shall only take what we need for today’s meal, since we don’t know the impact of the hare species change on the local population of arctic fox.
Objectives:
- Harvest a snowshoe hare over 1.3 kg
- Harvest another snowshoe hare over 1.3 kg in the same hunt
Mission 7: Taking the Heirs
Description: Yesterday’s meal was quite good, but the plane isn’t going to be back for a couple of days because of the bad weather. I think if we only take males, we won’t have a big impact on the population. Meanwhile, I’ll gather information about the arctic fox population.
Objectives:
- Harvest a male snowshoe hare
- In the same hunt, harvest another male snowshoe hare
- In the same hunt, harvest another male snowshoe hare
Mission 8: Foxtrot is secured
Description:I consulted some archives and made some observations, and I think the arctic fox population is doing great. We can continue our investigation. Can you spy on some hare, to study their behavior?
Objectives:
- Find a set of snowshoe hare tracks
- Then find another set of snowshoe hare tracks
- Then ID droppings from a snowshoe hare
- Then spot a snowshoe hare
- Then harvest a snowshoe hare
Mission 9: Careful with the choke
Description:I can’t remember where I put the guns yesterday. There is so many boxes and scientific material in here. Oh! I found this one. This is just fine. I’m not sure about the choke on the gun, so don’t shoot them too close, I don’t want you to bring me colanders.
Objectives:
- Harvest a snowshoe hare with the 12 GA single shot shotgun from at least 35m
- Harvest another snowshoe hare with the 12 GA single shot shotgun from at least 35m
- Harvest another snowshoe hare with the 12 GA single shot shotgun from at least 35m
Mission 10: Something to compensate with
Description: The plane finally arrived. The colleague who «inspired» me this research sent me a note. It was a trap, a big lie. Nobody ever saw any arctic hare in this region. It always have been a snowshoe hare region… He made me lose my time while he was getting the grant. We need to take revenge. The naturalised snowshoe hare of the University collection were given by him, so if we can bring more beautiful hare, they will surely expose them, so everyone can see I have bigger… hare than him!
Objectives:
- Harvest a male snowshoe hare scoring at least 1750
- Harvest a female snowshoe hare scoring at least 1750