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Nutria invade California
  • This April 18, 2019, photo provided by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife shows a nutria in Merced County, Calif. With $10 million in state funding, the Department of Fish and Wildlife is preparing to deploy new tactics in its efforts to eradicate nutria. (California Department of Fish and Wildlife via AP)
  • In this photo taken Sept. 12, 2019, Greg Gerstenberg, a senior wildlife biologist with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, shows a muskrat in a trap intended to catch nutria as he prepares to release it back in a pond in Stevinson, Calif. With $10 million in state funding, the Department of Fish and Wildlife is preparing to deploy new tactics in its efforts to eradicate nutria. (AP Photo/Terry Chea)
  • This photo taken Sept. 12, 2019, shows the head of a dead frozen nutria with prominent orange teeth that will be taken to a laboratory for a necropsy in Los Banos, Calif. With $10 million in state funding, the Department of Fish and Wildlife is preparing to deploy new tactics in its efforts to eradicate nutria. (AP Photo/Terry Chea)
  • In this photo taken Sept. 12, 2019, Sean McCain, a scientist with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, cuts a sweet potato on a kayak in a pond as a bait for nutria in Stevinson, Calif. With $10 million in state funding, the Department of Fish and Wildlife is preparing to deploy new tactics in its efforts to eradicate nutria. (AP Photo/Terry Chea)
  • In this photo taken Sept. 12, 2019, Sean McCain, a scientist with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, sets up a feeding platform used to lure nutria in front of a surveillance camera in a pond in Stevinson, Calif. With $10 million in state funding, the Department of Fish and Wildlife is preparing to deploy new tactics in its efforts to eradicate nutria. (AP Photo/Terry Chea)
  • This photo taken Sept. 12, 2019, shows a surveillance camera used to take photos and video of nutria in a pond in Stevinson, Calif. With $10 million in state funding, the Department of Fish and Wildlife is preparing to deploy new tactics in its efforts to eradicate nutria. (AP Photo/Terry Chea)
  • This photo taken Sept. 12, 2019, shows a sweet potato used as bait in traps to lure nutria, a rodent, in Stevinson, Calif. With $10 million in state funding, the Department of Fish and Wildlife is preparing to deploy new tactics in its efforts to eradicate nutria. (AP Photo/Terry Chea)

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