WASHINGTON - U.S. Rep. Frank Kratovil is joining forces with a Louisiana congressman to fight nutria, a plant-gobbling, orange-toothed marsh rodent.
Nutria have devastated wetlands and marshes on Maryland's Eastern Shore, most notably at the Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge near Cambridge. Nutria are nonnative species from South America that originally were brought here for the fur trade.
The Nutria Eradication and Control Act of 2009 is cosponsored by U.S. Rep. Charles Boustany, R-La., and would direct the Secretary of the Interior to send federal money to Maryland,...
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