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 ...

A muskrat in the wild could be mistaken for a small beaver—it’s got serious wood-chewing incisors and a scaly, rudder-like tail—but it’s actually more closely related to a lemming or vole. Like ...

Milford Moose Lodge 2316 had an annual wild game and seafood dinner that included muskrat, deer, duck, geese, beaver and raccoon, along with oysters on the half shell, fritters, frog legs, steamed ...

While there, he created the Muskrat Group exhibit, a diorama behind glass that depicts lifelike muskrats in a true-to-life natural setting, doing the things they would be doing in the wild ...

Something Wild: What's it like inside a beaver lodge? ... turtles, and other creatures. As a direct result of more beaver ponds, mink, muskrat, and otter populations rebounded.

How muskrats shape bird-friendly wetlands is the topic of the Lake County Audubon Society meeting at 7 p.m. April 7, at Aspen Drive Library, 701 Aspen Drive in Vernon Hills. Stephanie Beilke ...