After the search form below, this page gives some hints and tips for searching specific Internet sites for information about muskrats.

Search "Everything Muskrat"
From here, you can search for words or phrases used within the Everything Muskrat site.

Hint:  A common mistake people make is including the work muskrat in their search.  Muskrat appears on every page of the site; therefore the search returns all pages.  So, for example, to find pages referring to muskrat lodges type in just the word lodges in the field below (instead of the two words muskrat lodges).

Sites You May Want to Search Yourself
These sites may offer information on muskrats that you can dig out on your own.

Books, Stories, etc.

From American Memory from the Library of Congress, you can search for "muskrat" and find, among other things, links to the entire book The Lay of the Land by Dallas Lore Sharp, published in 1908.  The first section is titled "The Muskrats Are Building" and it has more than several occurrences of the word "muskrat".

You can search for books about muskrat at Yahoo! Shopping, Amazon.com, and Barnes & Noble (and other places as they sprout up on the web).

Biology

From American Memory from the Library of Congress, you can search for "muskrat" and find, among other things, links to the entire book The Lay of the Land by Dallas Lore Sharp, published in 1908.  The first section is titled "The Muskrats Are Building" and it has more than several occurrences of the word "muskrat".

Environment Canada's Green Lane and the regional Green Lane sites listed below mostly have some search capability.  If you're poking around these sites, you might want to be aware that many migratory bird sanctuaries harbor muskrat, too. 

If you do a search for "muskrat" from Environment Canada: Search Page from The Canada Centre for Inland Waters (CCIW), you'll find many pages containing the word "muskrat".  [Note that the Ontario Region's Environment Canada-Green Lane site is hosted on the same server as CCIW.  Also be aware that I've already included the page on which I found the most information about muskrats; it's on my Biology - Government Web Pages page.]

You'll find many pages for muskrat (in French) if you do a search for "Le rat musqué" or "Les rats musqués" from the search (Recherche) page off of l'ÉcoRoute de l'information.  [I didn't recognize any as giving much information specifically about muskrat, though.]

The Parks Canada site has many references to muskrat on it.  Mostly, you'll find parks in which muskrat is listed among the many animals found there.

A search from Canadian Sustainable Forestry Certification Coalition has many more hits for pages in French (using "le rat musqué") than for pages in English (using "muskrat").

You can search all the forums at The Nature.Net Forums for information about muskrat.

Humor

From American Memory from the Library of Congress, you can search for "A. J. Howell" and find an interview from the late 1930's of carpenter A. J. Howell of Oswego, Oregon {described as "WPA Life Hist [Early Reminiscences] (21,804 bytes)"}.  He tells of an incident of "fish-hawks catchin' muskrats".

Music

Searching for "Muskrat" yielded 310 matching CDs from CDDB Server. when I looked at it.

A search for "Muskrat" on 2000-Feb-25 at MP3.com found one artist (Scoundrel Muskrat) and two songs ("Muskrat" by Dwight Diller - bluegrass, and "Muskrat Ramble" by The Rob Wright Dixieland Showband - Jazz).

A search for muskrat at the Tunes Network will find songs titled "Muskrat".

A search for "muskrat" at jpc - Music à la carte found 312 hits on 2001-Jul-15.

A search for "muskrat" at NetStoreUSA.com sheet music resulted in 4 hits for "Muskrat Love" and 22 hits for "Muskrat Ramble".

Pictures

You can find photographs dealing with muskrats by doing a search for muskrat at Corbis.

Place Names

The GeoNames search feature of Canadian Geographical Names/Les noms géographiques du Canada is fun.  Try searches for Muskrat* and for Musquash*.  (Musquash is the Algonquian word from which muskrat is derived.)

Trapping/Hunting

From American Memory from the Library of Congress, you can search for "muskrat" and find several interviews from the late 1930's mentioning muskrat.