LEGISLATION THAT WOULD BAN THE USE OF TRAPS IN THE NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGEYS STEM AND OTHER AREAS IS BEING CONSIDERED INHE T US HEALTH CONGRSMESAN. GARRETT GRAVES IS WORKING TO PREVENT THIS ...

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HOUMA -- The roar of Vernon Naquin's mudboat thunders through the marshes of Orange Grove Canal, just south of this Cajun Country hub. Scanning the acres of wetlands before him, Naquin spies the ...

Question: I’ve been following the effort to eradicate invasive nutria from California. Why not let the state’s hunters and trappers help by offering a bounty on nutria? Louisiana pays $5 for every ...

ALBANY - Sixty-three nutria have been captured over a two-week period along stretches of the Periwinkle Creek path in Albany. Trappers from Ketch-Um Wildlife Control of Albany expect to finish ...

Nutria, a semiaquatic mammal, was introduced to the U.S. in the late 1800s for the fur trade. After escaping captivity, the critters, which can weigh over 20 pounds and breed year-round, proved hard ...

Strolling atop levees at Grizzly Ranch in the Suisun Marsh, south of Fairfield, wildlife biologist Robert Eddings stops in front of a brackish pond. Unlike most of the surrounding wetland, this pond ...

They look like scruffy, oversize rats armed with large, beaver-like orange teeth and flat noses. They’re called nutria, and they’ve ravaged thousands of acres of marshland on the Delmarva Peninsula ...

About the size of a beagle, they can quickly turn a lush green marsh to a wasteland. They use their long orange teeth to gnaw through vegetation and reach the succulent bits they crave. Females can ...

To the Editor: At a recent legislative hearing on trapping, as required under Act 159, one of the legislators asked Vermont Fish and Wildlife's general counsel if trapping is needed in Vermont to ...