Nebraska Game and Parks Commission
Date of this Version
2006
Abstract
Historically, the northern river otter (Lontra canadensis) was well established throughout Nebraska (Swenk 1908) and was especially abundant along the Missouri and the Platte rivers (Jones 1964). Unregulated trapping and habitat degradation caused declines throughout most of the northern river otter's historic range (Nilsson 1980, Melquist and Dronkert 1987), including Nebraska. The species was considered extirpated in Nebraska by the early 1900s.
Comments
Published in The Prairie Naturalist 35(2): June 2003. Published by the Great Plains Natural Science Society http://www.fhsu.edu/biology/pn/prairienat.htm