Muskrat records in Kentucky cluster around Land Between the Lakes, Clarks River, and Reelfoot national wildlife refuges, wetland-rich sites in the state’s far west that fit this aquatic rodent’s need for marsh, backwater, and slow-moving stream cover.
Reports climb from February through May, when ice-out and spring high water make lodges and feeding sign easier to spot along the bank. NatureServe ranks the species S5, Secure, in Kentucky; the 53 records here measure documented sightings along accessible wetland edges, not the muskrat’s true statewide numbers.
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