Although they play an important role in native ecosystems, muskrats can cause significant damage with their foraging and ...

Fill empty muskrat burrows with a combination of soil and rock. To do this well requires patience. Using a small shovel, trickle the dirt and gravel down the entrances slowly, ...

A typical muskrat burrow or house includes multiple chambers connected by a series of tunnels, which are accessed through underwater entrances. Muskrats also build canals, which they use to travel ...

They will also burrow into the banks of a waterbody which can be problematic for earthen dams or berms. Both the muskrat huts and borrows are also used by other wildlife for resting and nesting, ...

Muskrats also burrow into banks and have their homes in tunnels above high water, but the entrance is always sufficiently below water level and, thus, difficult to observe. Jim Gilbert can be ...

Like beavers they will also burrow into river banks if conditions don’t support building a lodge. ... that unlikely characters, the muskrat in this case, ...

- The muskrat is about 20 inches long, including its 9-inch tail, and adults weigh 2 to 5 pounds. - Muskrats generally have a reddish-brown upper body with grayish-brown coloration farther down.

There's a lot more to the magnificent muskrat than meets the beedy little eye. So much so that this is part one of a two-part series wherein Martha Foley and Dr. Curt Stager talk about muskrats ...

The muskrat is a little cousin of the beaver, weighing only 2 to 3 pounds and always found in or near water. The long, shiny guard hairs of its coat are a rich brown.