Posted on 10/05/2024 4:54:05 AM PDT by dynachrome
Close to a thousand nutria have been hunted down in California this year alone, and wildlife officials are urging people to share reports of the invasive, 2.5-foot-long rodents in the Bay Area as recent sightings caught on camera show they’ve spread to Contra Costa County, posing a risk to a critical watershed.
Krysten Kellum, a spokesperson for the California Department of Fish and Wildlife’s Bay Delta Region, and Matthew Slattengren, Contra Costa County agriculture commissioner, both confirmed the discovery in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta to SFGATE, as first reported by the San Francisco Chronicle. (The Chronicle and SFGATE are both owned by Hearst but have separate newsrooms.)
The wildly destructive rodents’ presence is cause for widespread concern. Now that they’ve made their way into the delta, which helps channel water to cities and farms across the entire state, it will be easier for them to disperse into other regions. Once there, they’ll continue tearing through wetland habitat, lead to significant losses in crops, and “weaken levees to the point of failure” as a result of their burrowing, Slattengren explained in an email.
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I fully expected a photo of Nancy to appear.
In the ‘80s I had a gorgeous muskrat fur parka. They’re a bit like nutria — similar but not matching. I sure wish I hadn’t sold that thing.
They used to make fur coats out of them. Thanks, PETA.
My fur coat got stiff as a board, and is in the landfill.
The guy we hired to milk our logs is from Eastern Europe and he said that when communism came and food was scarce that his mom cooked nutria - they ate it a lot and never went hungry
*mill our logs (not milk 😂)
Before I moved to Hawaii I sold my three fur coats. 😢
You wanna get rid of them? Convince the poseur foodies that they taste good.
CC
Can't say for the others but the Mexicans will turn them into boots, belts and fajitas in no time. I bet they would taste good to.
They look like ground hogs, which are a little smaller, and thrive in Michigan. The are everywhere. The meat is very good, kind of like roast beef. I have one living under my shed.
They can make them into gumbo like the Cajuns do. I believe in Louisiana that their tails are worth $5 a piece as an incentive to get rid of them. They may be $10 now after BidenFlation.
We have them here. A friend in Louisiana eats them.
Fat ass swamp rats is what they are .
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Need a picture of Jerry Nadler
The illegals brought them over the line on a leash. Domesticated. The bigger ones are called pelosis. But they have already started leaving the SF area in California for Florida. Many evasive species infiltrate Florida.
wy69
they are already there... have been for at least 35 years.
I knew a guy... who... nevermind. that was san diego.
Shit eating rats? San Francisco is full of them.
Here in Ca. they’re now known as likely voters.
How soon for them to have an outbreak of “Nutria-pox” in the homosexual ‘community’? I also imagine Nutria dressed in bondage gear and leashes walking in their ‘Pride’ parades.
The recent, and short-lived, “eat a beaver” thread was testament to the edibility of big aquatic rodents. I’m sure they’re acceptable as table fare. Better than bugs.
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