“We Used to Say Rats Fell from the Sky After a Flood:” Temporary Recovery of Muskrat Following Ice Jams in the Peace-Athabasca Delta

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Authors: Straka, Jason R., Antoine, Archie, Bruno, Rene, Campbell, David, Campbell, Ron, Campbell, Ross, Cardinal, John, Gibot, Gerald, Gray, Queenie Z., Irwin, Sharon, Kindopp, Rhona, Ladouceur, Ray, Ladouceur, Walter, Lankshear, Jessica, Maclean, Bruce, Macmillan, Stuart, Marcel, Freddy, Marten, George, Marten, Larry, McKinnon, John, Patterson, Lucy D., Voyageur, Charlie, Voyageur, Morgan, Whiteknife, George "Sloan", Wiltzen, Leslie
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 2018
• Subjects: Peace-Athabasca Delta; Arctic
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.14430/arctic4714; https://10.70.129.196/index.php/arctic/article/download/67752/51648

Elders and Indigenous land users in the Peace-Athabasca Delta (PAD) have observed a dramatic decline in the relative abundance of muskrat in recent decades (~1935–2014). The main explanation for the decline has been reduction in suitable habitat as a result of decades with reduced frequency of ice-j...