Muskrat trapping data in the Netherlands 1941 – 1970, at municipal level per year

Trapped muskrats in the Netherlands have been manually registered at municipal level from 1941 until 1970. These data have yielded a valuable dataset that has been used in multiple studies. This dataset is part of a series of datasets concerning trapping muskrats and coypu , from 1941 until present. The trapping data of muskrats and Coypu in the Netherlands is available in various GBIF datasets with different spatial and temporal accuracy:1. Muskrat trapping data in the Netherlands 1941 – 1970, data at municipal level per year; this dataset2. Muskrat trapping data in the Netherlands 1941 – 1986, data at provincial level per year3. Coypu trapping data in the Netherlands 1988 – 2013, data at organization level per year4. Muskrat trapping data in the Netherlands 1987 – 2014, data on 5x5 km level per period of four weeks (https://doi.org/10.15468/ytr96y)5. MICA - Muskrat and coypu occurrences collected by UVW in the Netherlands (from 2014 onwards), data per trapped animal with exact location and date (https://doi.org/10.15468/qjds4c)