For years I've heard that rabbits are down due to the clean farming practices of today. That sounds logical until you see an abundance of rabbits in suburban yards. Whats "cleaner" than the mowed lawns of suburbia?

Then you go out to the reverting farms we see more and more of today and stomp the goldenrod and greenbrier etc, traditionally good rabbit cover,and see very few.

I don't pretend to know the answer. I'll only say that there must be more to it than simply a lack of good habitat.