Posted on 08/17/2018 1:49:53 PM PDT by Red Badger
For the small six-person team tasked with combating California's nutria infestation, a typical day consists of working in 100-degree weather, wading through marshes and avoiding traps built to catch 20-pound rodents, targeting about 2 million acres.
Nutria, a destructive rat-like mammal, is currently burrowing into central California's wetlands. In the spring, the Department of Fish and Wildlife began to warn the public about the dangers of the animal, which devastate agricultural infrastructure by burrowing into levees, roadbeds and canal beds.
But in the past few months, only 200 nutria have been exterminated, 100 of which were found in a pond on a single private farm in central California.
As the agency prepares for an intensive survey of the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, officials say they have no idea what the actual numbers of nutria will look like. In April, there were two confirmed sightings of nutria just outside the delta, a region critical to California's waterways.
"We can't guess, we have no idea what we're going to find in there," California Department of Fish and Wildlife spokesman Peter Tira told SFGATE. "We need to survey and see to what extent they're in there, we haven't determined a complete range of nutria in the region."
"Our goal is to keep the nutria out of the delta as much as possible," Tira said. "That's the epicenter of our water control and flood control in California."
The Department of Fish and Wildlife isn't expected to get people on the ground in the delta until later this month, since they are still in the process of getting permission from farmers and other landowners to access private property. Most of the land in the delta is private.
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Did you google Minx?
Excellent Seinfeld ref!
Give the dolphins & whales a break.
Sufar substitute or a new IUD
It was the first thing that came to my mind. :)
There are enough wacky CA chefs who could turn this into a trending menu item.
Maybe put them in Nutraloaf (and the name even matches).
The jailbirds in solitary might not notice the difference or might even appreciate the change of recipe.
I wondered if anyone was going to get the reference...
Just grep them out and pipe them to dev null...
Import Pythons from Florida!
Calling Duck Dynasty. Free nutria for Sy!
*chuckle*
Dried nutria gall bladder, if taken by a pregnant woman, ensures the baby born will be male.
You just read that on the internet so it must be true.
I got no problem with Si or Sy, whichever they call him, but he is kinda way out in the outfield, so to speak.
I saw him at a Cabelas promotion, signing autographs and such and he looks like a rat-eater.
And I don't mean that in a bad way...on the contrary, I mean he's obviously one of those that would eat whatever the hell it took to survive.
So would I, but I'm gonna have to get REAL hungry to eat a 20 pound rat and I don't care if Emeril hisself cooks it up.
Its a rodent so depending on how Richard Gere is feeling there might be a reduction of one more in the wild.
” A lot in Louisiana.”
If Cajuns won’t eat them, they’re unfit for consumption
Glad I wasn’t drinking anything when I read that
The only one I’ve ever hit sounded like a steel garbage can when I ran over it
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