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 ...

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 ...

Shaun Deller does not want you to trap nutria. Not only do you need a valid fur-takers license, he warns, but the giant water-loving rats (known since time immemorial as "The Filthy Scourge of the ...

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, ...

Officials Say These 20-Pound Rodents Are a Growing Problem in Several States ...

A pair of St. John the Baptist Parish residents will teach the rest of the country a little something about nutria hunting next week. Father and son nutria hunters Dean and Kirk Torres take Larry the ...