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last updated on April 28,2008.
Northeast Indiana. Find out about my creek's amazing history from the
Ice Age until today!
Mike Walter's Wetlands Page - On the web, nobody believes you're a muskrat. So I borrowed the name of a dweeby-looking guy who stomps around Cedar Creek taking pictures with a cheap camera. Wetlands are swamps, bogs and marshes. Some people think wetlands are wastelands and want to drain and fill them. They're wrong! Learn why we need to save the wetlands we still have!
Mike Walter's Indiana Earth Page - There's more than corn in Indiana! The Hoosier State has sand dunes, kettle lakes, glacial moraines and limestone hills, not to mention lots of muskrats! Learn what Indiana people are doing to protect their air, land, water and wildlife.
Mike Walter's Earth Page - You don't have to live in Indiana to help save the Earth. Visit this page for links to all kinds of organizations that are working to keep the Earth a living planet.
Mike Walter's Earth Page Attic - The Old Muskrat found so many cool links about the environment that he couldn't put them all on one page. So visit "the attic" for more links!
DeKalb County Chapter, Izaak Walton League - The DeKalb Ikes are my favorite people! They know how important clean water is to muskrats. Without the Ikes, Cedar Creek would be Mud Ditch!
A Model Wetlands Ordinance for Indiana Communities - Does your town have its own rules to protect wetlands? Some do...and it's a great idea! Just ask any muskrat! Here's a model ordinance written for Indiana, but it has good ideas that can be used anywhere.
parts of the South, the desert West and the coastal area of British Columbia.
2. Mama muskrats can have as many as eleven kits in one litter, but the average number of kits is four to seven. Grownup muskrats are about the size of your
family cat, but a little skinnier.
3. We live in houses that look a lot like the lodges that our beaver cousins build,
But we don't build dams. We like to live in shallow marshes in the summer, then move to deeper water in the winter. Some of us dig cozy dens by the water's edge.
In dry weather, we dig channels to make getting around the marsh easier.
4. We're mostly vegetarians, but I've been known to eat a mussel or a crawdad
when nobody's looking.
5. We're great swimmers because we've got partially webbed feet that work like paddles, and we use our long, scaly tails as rudders!
Then visit these outstanding muskrat sites!
Canadian Wildlife Service * Iktomi and the Muskrat: A Lakota Story
Muskrat Creation Myth * The Old Muskrat's Story * Slick Muskrat Pix
Clean Air and Water!
Click on the Picture!
Town and Make Them Stop!
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Harm Habitat!
November 27, 2001
Sign the petition!
the Old Muskrat see red!
guy with the cheap camera.
Environment!
Click on the picture for
a closer look!
by Tiffany Hilton-Cole, Greenwood, IN.
Used by permission.
--Kermit the Frog
by Mary B. Hollinger. Public domain.
on Other Worlds!
Click on the Picture:
Karen Hollingsworth. Public domain.
lower Cedar Creek.
Click on the picture to find out more!
Plant and Wildflower Society.
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
--Hamlet, Act One, Scene 5, Line 166
If you give place to accidental evils.
--Julius Caesar, Act Four, Scene 3, Line 145
Noble muskrat, your company.
--King Lear, Act Three, Scene 4, Line 177
With what muskrat did he tempt thy love?
--The Comedy of Errors, Act Four, Scene 2, Line 13
Click on the globe!
Click on the picture
and see what they
did to my creek!
clean air! Click
on the picture!
help save whales!
Save Wetlands!
planet." --Thomas Jefferson Muskrat
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service picture by J&K Hollingsworth.
Cruel
Traps!
Click on the picture
to print it out!
the picture to find out why!
Want to hear the Old Muskrat's favorite song? Then click here! You'll need RealPlayer on your computer to make this work. No, the song isn't "Muskrat Love!" It's called "Swimming to the Other Side" by a wonderful artist named Pat Humphries. For a file that you can play on Windows Media Player, click here! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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--11/29/2001
