But when the fur market crashed in the 1980s, the nutria population exploded. Now, an artist named Cree McCree is trying to make nutria fur fashionable again to control wild populations and save Louisiana's marshes from nutria noshing. Nutria are grazers. After their numbers climbed aerial ...
too, but they like to nibble the tender leaves of marsh plants, whereas nutria prefer to feast on a plant's base and roots. "The plant dies, and it relinquishes its hold on the soil," says Michael Massimi, invasive species coordinator...