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Steve Reinders, president of the Prior Lake Association, remembers when he first became aware of some annoying neighbors of his. “I started noticing them when they started doing damage,” he said.

Muskrat mating is so sensational that songs have been written about it. Fans of 1970s pop music might be familiar with a certain ballad, written by Willis Alan Ramsey and popularized by bands like ...

The good news? The decline in muskrat populations in Pennsylvania and across the Northeast seem to have ended. The bad news? Their numbers have settled in at a very depressed level. So says Tom ...

Tom Hardisky believes he knows the reason why muskrats have been on the decline in Pennsylvania. Problem is, there might not be a solution. Muskrat populations have declined over the last 25 years and ...

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 ...

It's happened pretty much every night this spring, Tom Shirek says; his yellow Lab, Theo, makes the rounds of nearby sloughs and returns home with furry, little "presents" he leaves in the yard. Proud ...

I was out visiting Shoals Marine Lab on Appledore Island this past week. This was a very nostalgic experience for me as I had spent five weeks at the lab as a field marine science student over 40 ...

With their surgical nibbles, these large, semi-aquatic, buck-toothed rodents have emerged as crucial helpers for ecologists restoring degraded wetlands across the Great Lakes. They are not the ...

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 ...