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 ...

This furry little guy is a muskrat. The semi-aquatic animal, classified as a rodent, is found all throughout North America and lives by rivers — like the Delaware — and marshes or lakes. They can grow ...

Hurry or you'll miss it. The season for trapping muskrats in New Castle County ends on Sunday, March 10; it's over in Kent and Sussex counties on Friday, March 15. But, the eating of the muskrat or ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Habitat selection by the muskrat (Ondatra zibethica), as reflected by house location, was studied over a 7-yr period (1970-1976) in a shallow ...

- The muskrat is about 20 inches long, including its 9-inch tail, and adults weigh 2 to 5 pounds. - Muskrats generally have a reddish-brown upper body with grayish-brown coloration farther down. - ...

The fur-bearing rodent used to be very abundant in the first half of the 20 th century, and harvesting muskrats for their meat and fur was a critical part of springtime subsistence activities. It was ...

The season for trapping muskrats ends anywhere from March 10 to March 20, depending on which county hunters are visiting. That means it's prime season right now for muskrat eating. We know only one ...

Growing up, in northeast Ohio in the early 1970s, trapping was a huge part of what my father and I did every Fall. And while we didn’t specifically target muskrats, they were our bread and butter. Why ...

LOWER ALLOWAYS CREEK TWP. -- A bitter wind cut across Alloways Creek and nearby marshes on a gray morning last week. Just after the day's first light, Charlie Franklin Jr. and his two cousins, Donnie ...

After a lengthy process of stabilization, permitting, construction and final details, the $60,000 Muskrat Blind resurrection ...

Dan Baker, wearing thigh-high camouflage waders and jabbing at the muck with a wooden stake, picked his way through a marsh in Southern Maryland as if he had lost something in it. A biting wind off ...