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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

PORT PENN, Del. -- Bob Krajewski slogged through the icy pond, checking his traps, with the agility expected of someone nicknamed "Muskrat." Before long, he held up a plump prize -- a creature with ...

KINGSLEY, Iowa -- The traps have been set, pulled and stored once again as Jan. 31 was the last day of trapping season for most animals. What kind of season was it? A good one, according to 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 ...

Trapping season in Vermont − always a concern for pet owners who like to take to the woods − begins on Saturday, Oct. 26, according to the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department. Traps can be set on ...