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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 ...

“Over the next few weeks you will see signs at the pond warning that trapping is in progress. We are trapping muskrats which have proliferated over the past few years. These rodents burrow under the ...

This week’s column is about parts of a truly exhausting 10 days of my life. I had fun, but the wear and tear of being on the go in the outdoor world is tearing me up. The sun was still an hour from ...

In the pond behind my barn lives a muskrat that knows how to use a weed trimmer. It moved in last spring and promptly trimmed the grass and weeds on the banks. Newly seeded orchard grass and clover, ...

MARYLAND - The Maryland Department of Natural Resources (DNR) has announced the one-week extension of the muskrat trapping season in some Maryland counties including all on the Eastern Shore.

With their surgical nibbles, these large, semi-aquatic, buck-toothed rodents have emerged as crucial helpers for ecologists restoring degraded wetlands across the Great Lakes. They are not the ...