NELSON COUNTY, N.D. -- The mercury had dipped to 9 below zero overnight, and Nat Bornsen's ATV was reluctant to fire up, even though it had weathered the brunt of the cold inside his shed. Nat Bornsen ...

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 ...

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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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 ...

“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 ...

In the pond behind my barn lives a muskrat that knows how to use a weed trimmer. It moved in last spring and promptly trimmed the grass and weeds on the banks. Newly seeded orchard grass and clover, ...

DORCHESTER COUNTY, MARYLAND — The dream catcher’s feathers swayed forward as Donna Abbott’s truck rolled to a stop. She cut the engine, welcoming the silence of a soggy morning. Fog pressed its weight ...

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 ...

The 17-foot aluminum boat scoots across the Cohansey River against a backdrop of blue sky and wispy clouds. Cord grass sways and snaps in a brisk breeze. At the helm is John Zander, a trapper whose ...

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 ...