The freezing and thawing temperatures of early January had given us a crusty snowpack. Such conditions are difficult for ...

I am fascinated by a small, fuzzy critter that is found just about anywhere there might be a spot of water in the United States and Canada. Not to mention, it has mastered a wide range of habitats and ...

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Something needs to be done to stop muskrat from boring holes into the dikes at a mine drainage treatment site in Mt. Pleasant Township. The holes can cause polluted water to foul Sewickley Creek, ...

Two weeks ago I made a trip to Mingo Wildlife Refuge near Puxico, Missouri. One of the most interesting things I saw was the activity of the muskrat pictured here. Swamp maple trees along a stream had ...

A Spokane patrolman claimed that he was attacked by a large muskrat near the Spokane River. “Something bumped against my leg and I gave it a kick, then saw it was a big rat,” Officer W.D. Thompson ...

Nelson County, N.D. The mercury had dipped to 9 below zero overnight, and Nat Bornsen's all-terrain vehicle was reluctant to fire up, even though it had weathered the brunt of the cold inside his shed ...

Chris Anchor was walking the banks of Plum Creek in the southeastern corner of Cook County when he spotted tracks in the mud that completely surprised him. Just a few years after the Forest Preserves ...

The muskrat built him a house, and under the spreading ice turned all the meadow into a well-stocked cellar. The beaver built a dam, cut and anchored under water a plenty of green sticks near his ...