California’s most-destructive and least-welcome swamp rodents have arrived in its fifth-largest city.
To be precise, they’ve arrived in the stretch of San Joaquin River that traces Fresno’s northwest border.
Eight years have passed since a reproducing population of nutria was found in western Merced County — their first discovery in the state since the 1970s. Despite eradication efforts that began in March 2018 , nutria have since spread north into the Delta, east into foothills along the Merced River and south into the Fresno Slough and Mendota Wildlife Area…