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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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.

Hurry or you'll miss it. The season for trapping muskrats in New Castle County ends on Sunday, March 10; it's over in Kent and Sussex counties on Friday, March 15. But, the eating of the muskrat or ...

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 ...

Well hunting season is finally here. For those who know me well, you’ll know that few things excite me as the dawn of a new hunting season. Now I know at least one person out there is shaking their ...