Muskrat (Ondatra zibethicus) populations have always followed a boom-and-bust cycle, with their numbers crashing in dry years and peaking after major floods.

Drying Canadian wetland drives muskrat decline Date: November 26, 2018 Source: Stanford's School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences Summary: ...

A recipe for "Oven Muskrat" in the Buckskinner Cookbook advises "basting often with ... Krajewski gets about $3.75 per pelt.Krajewski uses this body-grip trap when hunting muskrats on dry land.

Because muskrat feed and overwinter on ephemeral water bodies and at the margins of lakes and streams, the researchers ruled out pixels that showed either water or dry land for the entire period. They ...

"Southern Grille’s fried muskrat is slightly dry and stringy, but it tastes like lean, well-seasoned beef, not like your idea of a marsh-dwelling rodent," Allen wrote. To each his own.

but the muskrats are building; and it is by no means a cheerless prospect, this wood-and-meadow world of mine in the gray November light. The frost will not fall to-night as falls the plague on ...

Muskrats are semi-aquatic mammals and live in stream, river and pond banks with underwater tunnels and dry chambers. Pixabay.com photo ...

Muskrats are, in fact, invaluable wetland engineers, ... or perhaps would have become so clogged with dead cattails and sediment that it would be well on its way to becoming dry land.

The pelts are hung to dry on wire stretchers. They will be sold to a fur dealer for about $4 a piece, the going rate now. The "meats," the skinned body, will fetch about $2.

Once you've got your 'rats, it's time to skin them and clean them. In Salem County, where the annual muskrat dinner in Lowers Alloway Creek is entering its 78th year, those who prepare the ...