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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.

Muskrats are medium-sized semi-aquatic rodents, commonly found throughout the U.S. The Missouri Department of Conservation says muskrats help control populations of plants and small animals they ...

The number of muskrats trapped for their fur in Minnesota dropped last year to about 19,000, the lowest on record. Biologists say a number of factors are at play in that drop, including fewer trappers ...