Muskrat (Ondatra zibethicus) is a common mammal found in marshes, stream banks and around shallow-water areas throughout the Chesapeake Bay watershed. They are semi-aquatic and live in stream, river ...

CRISFIELD, MD — Muskrat trapping season is synonymous with muskrat eating season for some people on the Delmarva Peninsula. In Somerset County, this culinary heritage runs deep. Renee Mears, owner of ...

Consider the muskrat. A muskrat can be thought of as a low-rent version of a beaver — they toil but do not build, their tails make no signature slap upon the waters when startled, trapped, their fur ...

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.

Back in the late 1950s and early 1960s, I had a younger brother who would trap and hunt whatever was in season. My dad was very happy when he came home with rabbits and squirrels. He would also clean ...

GOLDEN HILL, MD. — How do you skin a muskrat? Let’s ask an expert. Here’s Dakota Abbott, 17, the only woman to win a muskrat-skinning contest and the Miss Outdoors pageant. Her father and uncle, both ...

Last week's column ended with a teaser about an animal Illinois Public Media's Lisa Bralts and I saw as we searched Scott Park in Champaign for urban wildlife. If you caught her segment of "Backyard ...

This winter has been a bit strange in the northland where I reside. Not much snow, but enough cold temperatures to start freezing the lakes. The small lakes and ponds freeze up tight right away, but ...