This time of year, I often see a muskrat gracefully swimming along the surface of our pond with a mouth full of greens. At a certain location, the animal dives down and enters its bank den with a ...

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This winter has been a bit strange in the northland where I reside. Not much snow but enough cold temperatures to start freezing the lakes. The small lakes and ponds freeze up tight right away, but ...

Muskrat populations have been declining for more than half a century across North America. In Pennsylvania, the number of muskrats harvested each year has dropped from 720,000 in 1983 to 24,792 in ...

On a bike bath that runs alongside Paradise Creek in Moscow, several people stopped to observe a furry brown animal moving effortlessly through the murky, slow-moving water. “It’s a beaver!” one of ...

Groundhogs and muskrats are animals that go by, quite literally, dozens of names each. With all those names, as well as their physical similarities, it’s easy to confuse them with one another. Today, ...

The culinary appeal of the muskrat, a wetlands-dwelling mammal, was not up for debate during the Monroe Boat Club’s annual muskrat dinner. “It’s actually very good,” said longtime patron Gary Bondy.