An invasive, furry rodent is destroying swamps and marshland in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta and the Central Valley and some wildlife officials have pushed for a new solution to saving wetlands: eat the invaders.
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service debuted a new slogan for nutria — 3-foot-long, fur-covered rodents with yellow buck teeth — for national invasive species awareness last week: “Save a Swamp, Sauté a Nutria.”
Nutria, rodents originally from South America, have been eating their way through Delta vegetation. The mammals can eat up to 25% of their body weight — between 15 and 20 pounds for full-grown nutria — in a single day…