TOPEKA (KSNT) – Kansas wildlife officials are asking the state’s trappers to pitch in and help save the declining population of muskrats in the state and the nation. The Kansas Department of Wildlife ...

The number of muskrats trapped for their fur in Minnesota dropped last year to about 19,000, the lowest on record. Biologists say a number of factors are at play in that drop, including fewer trappers ...

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 ...

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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, ...

The muskrat houses, once spotted in multitudes, were missing. That’s what a reader — who recalled seeing the critters’ homes dotting wetlands along the Minnesota River Valley in the past — noticed ...

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 ...

This time of year, it’s hard to beat having a good meal inside a warm, rustic lodge with a waterfront view. Just ask a beaver. Beaver lodges aren’t just by the water, they’re below and above it. When ...