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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 ...

“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 ...

Over the past five years, Russian zoologists have been unable to detect and capture muskrats for subsequent breeding in ...

Dorrance Township resident Kevin Gallagher holds a 58-pound beaver he trapped last winter. Trapping season for fox, coyote, raccoon, opossum, skunk and weasel runs from Oct. 21 to Feb. 17. Mink and ...

Based on the frequency of garbage-can diving and attic prowling, citizens of the suburbs might conclude Ohio holds more than enough raccoons. Other furry critters not so much. Opossums and skunks ...

Every year at the end of November muskrats set out to do something about their annual housing shortage. In the summer they burrow into the banks of streams or ponds but during the northern winter the ...

Muskrats, semi-aquatic rodents native to North America, have a long and interesting history on Long Island. Originally found in wetlands and marshes across much of the eastern United States, muskrats ...

PORT PENN, Del. -- Bob Krajewski slogged through the icy pond, checking his traps, with the agility expected of someone nicknamed "Muskrat." Before long, he held up a plump prize -- a creature with ...