N.C., Va. gear up to fight nutria
Story Date: 3/20/2012

 
Source: WINSTON-SALEM JOURNAL, 3/18/12

Weighing up to 20 pounds, with orange teeth and an appetite that can reduce wetlands to barren mud flats, the South American nutria is spreading across North Carolina and Virginia — and wildlife officials, trappers and even conservationists say the critter that looks like a beaver and eats like a hog has got to go.

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