Most daddy-daughter dates include movies, dinner or dances, but Walter Heathcock and his daughter Irelyn do it a little differently - they hunt nutria. "Nutria are these small, about twenty or ...

I am a Boy Scout working on my Communications Merit Badge and am writing to share my opinion on your recent article about the Nutria Rodeo, published Feb 8. I recently researched the nutria and ...

Hunters are being paid $5 per nutria to eliminate the voracious wetland grass eaters along Louisiana's coast, through a $1.7 million federal-state program. Nutria, an invasive species imported from ...

STOCKTON (CBS13) — It's larger than a muskrat and smaller than a beaver, but has an appetite for destruction. The nutria is an animal keeping Fish and Wildlife officials busy. Several of these rodents ...

The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS) is encouraging Americans to hunt and eat five invasive animal species. An article on the USFWS website supported the agency’s efforts to control the ...

They look like a cross between an otter and a gopher but they taste something like a rabbit or dark meat from turkey. And conservation officials want you to eat as many of them as you can. The nutria, ...

Louisiana’s fight against nutria could become a national one under a bill that passed the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday. The bill, co-sponsored by U.S. Rep. Garret Graves, R-Baton Rouge, ...

CAMBRIDGE, Md.- In Dorchester County, nutria are an invasive species. The rodents were brought here from South America for use in the fur trade in the 1940s. Some escaped or were released from farms, ...

Tired of tarpon? There's a new rodeo in town. Sassafras Louisiana will host their first annual Nutria Rodeo on Dec. 3 in Golden Meadow. Enrolled hunters and fishermen can compete to take down some of ...

The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service has advice for dealing with certain types of invasive species -- eat them. Last month, the federal agency posted an article about "5 Invasive Species You Can Hunt, ...

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 ...