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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>State officials pursued alternative strategies for months before making the decision. This included “hazing,” or techniques intended to scare wolves off without causing them harm. The U.S. Department of Agriculture sent a team operating drones carrying speakers playing \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/drones-blasting-acdc-are-helping-biologists-protect-cattle-wolves-rcna228262\">AC/DC\u003c/a>, and other loud noises.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State officials sent a “\u003ca href=\"https://wildlife.ca.gov/News/Archive/cdfw-launching-pilot-effort-to-reduce-gray-wolf-attacks-on-livestock\">summer strike team\u003c/a>,” providing ranchers with round-the-clock support. And ranchers locally were “committed,” Roen said, many of them sleeping in their fields all summer, trying to “dissuade and haze wolves out of the livestock.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a shame that it had to only come to that,” Roen said. “Nobody’s happy about what happened, but everybody’s relieved that something was done to help stop the siege that we were living in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wolves are listed as a recovering endangered species, which means it’s illegal to kill them under state and federal law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along with other California predators, like the grizzly bear, wolves were hunted into extirpation during European colonization and settlement of the West. This all changed in December 2011, when a gray wolf named OR-7 crossed into California’s Siskiyou County, the first confirmed wild wolf spotted in the state since 1924.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10780879\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10780879\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/ShastaPackPups.jpg\" alt=\"Several gray wolf pups, dubbed the Shasta Pack, were captured by a remote camera in Siskiyou County this past August. They were the first gray wolf pups found in the state in nearly a century.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1183\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/ShastaPackPups.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/ShastaPackPups-400x246.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/ShastaPackPups-800x493.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/ShastaPackPups-1440x887.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/ShastaPackPups-1180x727.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/ShastaPackPups-960x592.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Several gray wolf pups, dubbed the Shasta Pack, were captured by a remote camera in Siskiyou County this past August. They were the first gray wolf pups found in the state in nearly a century. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the California Department of Fish and Wildlife)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ten packs of wolves now live in California, all descendants of the famed wolf reintroduction to Yellowstone National Park in 1995. The return of the apex predator after a 70-year absence ushered in a noticeable and profound impact on the local ecology, “changing the rivers,” as a viral 2014 \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysa5OBhXz-Q\">video\u003c/a> put it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaggie Orrick, the director of the California Wolf Project at UC Berkeley, said that any loss of life in the state is tragic, whether it’s the death of the wolves or the loss of cattle in the Sierra Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Balancing the protection of individual animals with the success of a species as a whole, she said, is a constant struggle within conservation work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The removal of one pack is not necessarily going to be detrimental for wolf recovery across the state,” she said. “We are going to continue to see other packs populate and disperse throughout all of California. That also speaks to the fact that we need to really be focused on improving management and the science of wolves in the state, because they’re only going to just keep coming.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/dventon\">\u003cem>Danielle Venton\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>From the glittery bling of its name, the golden mussel sounds like it could be California’s state bivalve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unfortunately, the creature’s only connection to the Golden State is the fact that it is California’s most recently identified invasive species — and it’s a bad one, with the capacity to clog major water supply pipes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Oct. 17, the tiny freshwater mollusks, which have already laid siege to waterways of southern South America, were found at Rough and Ready Island, near Stockton. Since then, state officials said, it has been in at least one other location, O’Neill Forebay, in Merced County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Its appearance in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta is the mussel’s first confirmed detection in North America, according to a news release from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s also very possibly just the beginning of a long battle ahead to slow its spread. The top concerns at the moment include potential impacts to the environment and to the Delta pumping stations that send water to 30 million people and millions of acres of farmland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unless it is contained and eliminated immediately, said UC Davis biologist Peter Moyle, there might be no getting rid of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we’re lucky, and we stage a real eradication effort in the area where it’s presently found, it might not be too costly and would be worth it,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But if such efforts fail, it could become a major problem for native species that the mussels outcompete for food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vWtkzwFnS0\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Department of Fish and Wildlife is already considering these worst-case outcomes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The species poses a significant immediate threat to the ecological health of the Delta and all waters of the state, water conveyance systems, infrastructure and water quality,” staff officials wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Department of Water Resources is already conducting vessel inspections in the hopes of preventing spread of the mussels. In the San Luis State Recreation Area, officials have been inspecting watercraft exiting O’Neill Forebay, San Luis Reservoir, and Los Banos Creek Reservoir, said Tanya Veldhuizen, the department’s special projects section manager. The inspections are to “ensure all water is drained from live wells and bilges to prevent spread of invasive species to other water bodies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department, she said, is also taking heightened measures to protect the State Water Project — the system of pumps, pipes, and canals that exports water south from the Delta. This enhanced vigilance to mitigate “mussel biofouling,” she said, requires more frequent inspections, as well as cleaning and flushing. The mussels, she said, are likely to build up in screens, strainers, and trash racks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7p_w4zE3s4\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A native of China and Southeast Asia, \u003ca href=\"https://www.science.org/content/article/golden-mussels-devastating-south-american-rivers-amazon-may-be-next\">the golden mussel\u003c/a> — taxonomically \u003cem>Limnoperna fortunei \u003c/em>— fixes itself to underwater surfaces, forming thick “reefs” built of millions of the animals. They feed by filtering nutrients and plankton from the water and, by this passive action, can have devastating impacts. Essentially, they filter the nutrition out of the native food web. In Argentina and southern Brazil, where golden mussels appeared in the 1990s, they have pushed out other species and smothered river beaches and native vegetation. Scientists have watched them spread north as rapidly as 150 miles per year, and they fear the invaders will find their way into the world’s largest river system and the hottest hotspot of biodiversity on Earth, the Amazon basin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’ve also wreaked mayhem with underwater infrastructure, from hydroelectric plants to water supply systems. The mussels, for example, reportedly clogged the intake pipes of an urban water supply system in Brazil’s Lake Guaíba.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No one can be certain how the mussels got to California, but sources suspect they arrived the same way they are believed to have traveled to South America — in the bowels of commercial ships, where ballast water used to stabilize vessels at sea is often drained in the port of arrival.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not everyone is particularly surprised, either. Moyle, for one, said he’s been expecting the golden mussel to arrive in the state for years. The California Delta, he noted, has been described as one of the most invaded estuaries in the world. It has been colonized by \u003ca href=\"https://deltaconservancy.ca.gov/about-the-diisc/\">at least 185\u003c/a> foreign species, from Himalayan blackberries and fig trees to black bass, striped bass, and water hyacinth. According to one estimate, invasive species account for an astounding \u003ca href=\"https://www.watereducation.org/western-water/its-not-just-nutria-sacramento-san-joaquin-delta-has-185-invasive-species-tracking#:~:text=Estimates%20are%20that%20at%20least%20185%20invasive%20plants,least%2095%20percent%20of%20the%20region%E2%80%99s%20total%20biomass.\">95% or more of the estuary’s total biomass\u003c/a>. The nutria — a large water-loving rodent from South America — has spread through the estuary in recent years amid concerns that it could, among other things, damage levees with its burrows.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11786254,news_12008422,news_11918450\"]There are even some Asian bivalves already living in the Bay and Delta. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbssocal.org/redefine/the-tiny-clams-that-ate-the-bay-delta#:~:text=The%20Amur%20River%20clam%20%28Corbula%20amurensis%29%20and%20Asian,the%20Bay%20Delta%27s%20aquatic%20ecosystem%20at%20its%20base\">Eurasian overbite clam\u003c/a>, for one, spread through the waterway \u003ca href=\"https://californiawaterblog.com/2022/05/29/the-failed-recovery-plan-for-the-delta-and-delta-smelt/\">in the 1980s\u003c/a>. Biologists say the species has likely played a role in the downfall of native fishes by absorbing the tiny food particles that they depend on. The failed recovery of the Delta smelt, for example, has been linked to the spread of these clams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, scientists fear the golden mussel could add to these pressures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But not necessarily. Moyle said the Delta is so heavily impacted already, and its food resources already claimed, by other species — notably the filter-feeding clams — that there may be no room for the golden mussel to move in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The invasive clams take up a lot of niche space,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other hand, Moyle said, “it could be a super-invader” — an invasive species so adaptable and persistent that it replaces other invaders that came before it. The Delta’s average range of water temperatures and salinity, he said, are just right for the golden mussel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in such an \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2021/04/california-battle-invasive-species/\">ecologically ransacked\u003c/a> place as the Delta, not everyone is concerned about another bump in the road. Brett Baker, a water attorney with the Central Delta Water Agency and a sixth-generation resident on Sutter Island — and a former biology student of Moyle — isn’t fazed by the golden mussel’s appearance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve heard alarms all my life about quagga mussels, zebra mussels, mitten crabs, and nutria,” he said. “I just don’t think there’s enough slack in the system, or enough niche space, particularly for a species that isn’t evolved to live here. … I’m pretty sure we won’t be talking about the golden mussel in 20 years, but I could be wrong.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]M[/dropcap]erced County sweet potato farmer Stan Silva hadn’t even heard the word “nutria” until a few months ago. He’s still never seen one, but he’s worried about the damage these 20-pound rodents with big orange buck teeth could do in California if they’re not eradicated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It would be devastating,” Silva says. “They can basically ruin the ag industry here — they get in your fields, burrow into your canal ways, your waterways.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They can also tear up crops and levees, making the state’s water infrastructure more vulnerable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11708871\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11708871\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34234_Aaron-and-Stan-Silva-at-the-packing-plant-for-their-family-farm-Doreva-Produce.-Their-familys-been-farming-in-Merced-County-for-over-100-years.-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Aaron and Stan Silva at the packing plant for their family farm, Doreva Produce. Their family has been farming in Merced County for over 100 years.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34234_Aaron-and-Stan-Silva-at-the-packing-plant-for-their-family-farm-Doreva-Produce.-Their-familys-been-farming-in-Merced-County-for-over-100-years.-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34234_Aaron-and-Stan-Silva-at-the-packing-plant-for-their-family-farm-Doreva-Produce.-Their-familys-been-farming-in-Merced-County-for-over-100-years.-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34234_Aaron-and-Stan-Silva-at-the-packing-plant-for-their-family-farm-Doreva-Produce.-Their-familys-been-farming-in-Merced-County-for-over-100-years.-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34234_Aaron-and-Stan-Silva-at-the-packing-plant-for-their-family-farm-Doreva-Produce.-Their-familys-been-farming-in-Merced-County-for-over-100-years.-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34234_Aaron-and-Stan-Silva-at-the-packing-plant-for-their-family-farm-Doreva-Produce.-Their-familys-been-farming-in-Merced-County-for-over-100-years.-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34234_Aaron-and-Stan-Silva-at-the-packing-plant-for-their-family-farm-Doreva-Produce.-Their-familys-been-farming-in-Merced-County-for-over-100-years.-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34234_Aaron-and-Stan-Silva-at-the-packing-plant-for-their-family-farm-Doreva-Produce.-Their-familys-been-farming-in-Merced-County-for-over-100-years.-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34234_Aaron-and-Stan-Silva-at-the-packing-plant-for-their-family-farm-Doreva-Produce.-Their-familys-been-farming-in-Merced-County-for-over-100-years.-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34234_Aaron-and-Stan-Silva-at-the-packing-plant-for-their-family-farm-Doreva-Produce.-Their-familys-been-farming-in-Merced-County-for-over-100-years.-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34234_Aaron-and-Stan-Silva-at-the-packing-plant-for-their-family-farm-Doreva-Produce.-Their-familys-been-farming-in-Merced-County-for-over-100-years.-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aaron and Stan Silva at the packing plant for their family farm, Doreva Produce. Their family has been farming in Merced County for over 100 years. \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nutria aren’t native to California, or the United States. Fur farmers brought the South American rodent to Southern California in the late 1800s as an attempt to make an affordable mink alternative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite multiple attempts, the nutria fur business never took off — but the rodents went feral. California’s Department of Food and Agriculture determined that they were eradicated in the 1970s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But last year, a few \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11649794/california-officials-set-up-invasive-swamp-rodent-hotline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">were spotted again in Merced County\u003c/a>, and they’re multiplying. Nutria can have up to 200 babies a year. By this April, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife had to create a task force. Now, the rodents are on the move, north toward the San Joaquin Delta, California’s most important water source.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re just a menace,” Silva says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is why, for the last few months, the Silva family has given away thousands of pounds of what they grow because what’s most at threat for the Silvas — their sweet potatoes — just happen to be unlikely weapons in the fight against the nutria scourge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11708874\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11708874\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34239_The-Silvas-are-one-of-a-few-farming-families-in-Merced-County-giving-away-their-produce-to-help-fight-an-invasive-pest-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34239_The-Silvas-are-one-of-a-few-farming-families-in-Merced-County-giving-away-their-produce-to-help-fight-an-invasive-pest-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34239_The-Silvas-are-one-of-a-few-farming-families-in-Merced-County-giving-away-their-produce-to-help-fight-an-invasive-pest-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34239_The-Silvas-are-one-of-a-few-farming-families-in-Merced-County-giving-away-their-produce-to-help-fight-an-invasive-pest-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34239_The-Silvas-are-one-of-a-few-farming-families-in-Merced-County-giving-away-their-produce-to-help-fight-an-invasive-pest-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34239_The-Silvas-are-one-of-a-few-farming-families-in-Merced-County-giving-away-their-produce-to-help-fight-an-invasive-pest-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Silvas are one of a few farming families in Merced County giving away their produce to help fight an invasive pest. \u003ccite>(Angela Johnston/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Stan Silva’s grandparents came to the Central Valley from the Azores and Lisbon, Portugal, in the early 1900s, and started farming on small plots. Now, the \u003ca href=\"http://dorevaproduce.com/\">Silva family farm\u003c/a> grows sweet potatoes on 850 acres and supplies the largest retailers in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We dump ‘em in our wash tank here, they continue on through the conveyor, through the heater, and the ladies on the other end are sorting and packing to go to market,” Stan Silva says as he walks around the packing facility with his son and grandson — three generations of farmers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the back is a huge gyro machine, which processes 30 bags of sweet potatoes in a minute. Grandson Rueger Silva is in charge of its operation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11708881\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11708881\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34237_Sweet-potatoes-at-the-Silva-farm-make-their-way-to-the-cleaning-tank-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34237_Sweet-potatoes-at-the-Silva-farm-make-their-way-to-the-cleaning-tank-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34237_Sweet-potatoes-at-the-Silva-farm-make-their-way-to-the-cleaning-tank-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34237_Sweet-potatoes-at-the-Silva-farm-make-their-way-to-the-cleaning-tank-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34237_Sweet-potatoes-at-the-Silva-farm-make-their-way-to-the-cleaning-tank-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34237_Sweet-potatoes-at-the-Silva-farm-make-their-way-to-the-cleaning-tank-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sweet potatoes at the Silva farm make their way to the cleaning tank. \u003ccite>(Angela Johnston/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I’m only 18, but my dad had a heart attack so I had to come back and help with everything,” he says as he darts around the machine, pressing buttons and checking the conveyor belt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In late summer, 44-year-old Aaron Silva had a massive heart attack that left him hospitalized for a month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Rueger] left college to come back to help on the ranch until his father gets further along here,” Stan Silva says proudly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aaron Silva is still recovering from a brain injury that was a side effect of the heart attack. He says he’s having to relearn longtime customers’ names and faces. But, he says, he didn’t lose any memory of the process of farming and packing sweet potatoes. Farming is in his blood, and he doesn’t want anything to threaten it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just 20 miles from the packing plant, \u003ca href=\"https://www.wildlife.ca.gov/\">Department of Fish and Wildlife\u003c/a> biologist Sean McCain is spying on some nutria making nests in a marsh full of tule reeds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11708876\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11708876\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34235_Sean-McCain-from-Californias-Department-of-Fish-and-Wildlife-points-out-nutria-habitat.-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34235_Sean-McCain-from-Californias-Department-of-Fish-and-Wildlife-points-out-nutria-habitat.-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34235_Sean-McCain-from-Californias-Department-of-Fish-and-Wildlife-points-out-nutria-habitat.-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34235_Sean-McCain-from-Californias-Department-of-Fish-and-Wildlife-points-out-nutria-habitat.-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34235_Sean-McCain-from-Californias-Department-of-Fish-and-Wildlife-points-out-nutria-habitat.-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34235_Sean-McCain-from-Californias-Department-of-Fish-and-Wildlife-points-out-nutria-habitat.-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34235_Sean-McCain-from-Californias-Department-of-Fish-and-Wildlife-points-out-nutria-habitat.-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34235_Sean-McCain-from-Californias-Department-of-Fish-and-Wildlife-points-out-nutria-habitat.-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34235_Sean-McCain-from-Californias-Department-of-Fish-and-Wildlife-points-out-nutria-habitat.-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34235_Sean-McCain-from-Californias-Department-of-Fish-and-Wildlife-points-out-nutria-habitat.-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34235_Sean-McCain-from-Californias-Department-of-Fish-and-Wildlife-points-out-nutria-habitat.-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sean McCain, from California’s Department of Fish and Wildlife, points out nutria habitat. \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think they know we’re here yet,” he whispers as he sneaks up to the edge of the marsh. He points out a few of the rodents, which look like a cross between rats and beavers, with scaly tails, webbed feet and big orange bucked teeth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McCain first saw a family of nutria here two weeks ago, and since then he’s been coming back to this spot almost every day to check on them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been watching the vegetation recede away from the middle of the pond,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nutria can eat up to 25 percent of their body weight in one day. They munch on the roots of green duckweeds, cattails and tule reeds. If they clear-cut an entire marsh like this one, they put all the birds and frogs and other species that depend on it at risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nutria problem is potentially so big that the Department of Fish and Wildlife is pulling staff from all over the state for on-the-ground training.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11649829/swamp-creatures\">Swamp Creatures\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11649829/swamp-creatures\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/calnutria_021318_final-1180x1180.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>At another pond, the team hasn’t seen any nutria in the flesh, so they’re setting up a wildlife camera to see if they can capture them on tape, and creating a feeding platform within the camera’s range.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They wade into chest-deep water, yank reeds out of the marsh to make a little nest, and put bait on a wooden platform: bright orange slices of sweet potato to lure the rodents. It turns out, nutria love its color and taste.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McCain does this kind of work all day long: trying to get eyes on nutria, assessing their habitat and checking cameras to determine the right place for traps. When we get back to the car, he plugs an SD card from one of the wildlife cameras into his laptop and we watch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There we go,” he says as a big family of nutria sneak onto the screen. “Those are adult nutria, and that one just stole our sweet potato.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now that the team has confirmed a big family of nutria in this swamp, they’ll send in trappers, who will set traps all over the area to start to eradicate this population one by one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11708867\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11708867\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34236_California-Department-of-Fish-and-Wildlifes-Greg-Gerstenberg-shows-off-a-frozen-nutria-head.-Theyve-captured-just-over-330-of-the-invasive-species-so-far..-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"The California Department of Fish and Wildlife has captured just over 330 nutria so far.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34236_California-Department-of-Fish-and-Wildlifes-Greg-Gerstenberg-shows-off-a-frozen-nutria-head.-Theyve-captured-just-over-330-of-the-invasive-species-so-far..-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34236_California-Department-of-Fish-and-Wildlifes-Greg-Gerstenberg-shows-off-a-frozen-nutria-head.-Theyve-captured-just-over-330-of-the-invasive-species-so-far..-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34236_California-Department-of-Fish-and-Wildlifes-Greg-Gerstenberg-shows-off-a-frozen-nutria-head.-Theyve-captured-just-over-330-of-the-invasive-species-so-far..-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34236_California-Department-of-Fish-and-Wildlifes-Greg-Gerstenberg-shows-off-a-frozen-nutria-head.-Theyve-captured-just-over-330-of-the-invasive-species-so-far..-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34236_California-Department-of-Fish-and-Wildlifes-Greg-Gerstenberg-shows-off-a-frozen-nutria-head.-Theyve-captured-just-over-330-of-the-invasive-species-so-far..-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The California Department of Fish and Wildlife has captured just over 330 nutria so far. \u003ccite>(Angela Johnston/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s part of a larger plan taking place at the Nutria Incident Command Center at an old hunting check station near Los Banos, California. Greg Gerstenberg holds down the fort here as the Incident Command chief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the deep freeze out back, Gerstenberg rummages around for frozen nutria. He pulls out nutria heads and bottles of their urine — helpful for trapping. They’re keeping these for training, and they give some to other departments for taxidermy and display in their offices, in case a farmer wanted to come and see what one looked like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’re also looking at how other states have dealt with the problem. Louisiana is offering a bounty to hunters to counter their out-of-control nutria problem. Gerstenberg is modeling California’s efforts on Chesapeake Bay’s, where they successfully eradicated nutria.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11660045/californias-lost-wetlands-reborn-thanks-to-central-valley-rice-farms\">California’s Lost Wetlands Get Help From Sacramento Valley Rice Farms\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11660045/californias-lost-wetlands-reborn-thanks-to-central-valley-rice-farms\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/SnowGeeseOnRice-1180x770.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>On the walls of the command center, huge maps of the Central Valley and San Joaquin Delta are covered with pink, yellow and blue dots showing where nutria have been spotted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gerstenberg says, after capturing nutria on camera in the southern Delta, Fish and Wildlife will pull their resources from Merced County and create a sort of fire line just north of this sighting, limiting and pushing the nutria out before they start to multiply in the Delta.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state has trapped over 330 nutria since April. Gerstenberg says he hopes they’re not in the thousands, but he has no way to confirm or estimate the nutria’s number.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our goal is to remove them quicker than they’re reproducing,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>A version of this story first aired on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kalw.org/programs/crosscurrents#stream/0\">KALW’s Crosscurrents\u003c/a>. It was produced in collaboration with the \u003ca href=\"https://thefern.org/\">Food & Environment Reporting Network\u003c/a>, a nonprofit investigative news organization.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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He’s still never seen one, but he’s worried about the damage these 20-pound rodents with big orange buck teeth could do in California if they’re not eradicated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It would be devastating,” Silva says. “They can basically ruin the ag industry here — they get in your fields, burrow into your canal ways, your waterways.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They can also tear up crops and levees, making the state’s water infrastructure more vulnerable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11708871\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11708871\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34234_Aaron-and-Stan-Silva-at-the-packing-plant-for-their-family-farm-Doreva-Produce.-Their-familys-been-farming-in-Merced-County-for-over-100-years.-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Aaron and Stan Silva at the packing plant for their family farm, Doreva Produce. Their family has been farming in Merced County for over 100 years.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34234_Aaron-and-Stan-Silva-at-the-packing-plant-for-their-family-farm-Doreva-Produce.-Their-familys-been-farming-in-Merced-County-for-over-100-years.-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34234_Aaron-and-Stan-Silva-at-the-packing-plant-for-their-family-farm-Doreva-Produce.-Their-familys-been-farming-in-Merced-County-for-over-100-years.-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34234_Aaron-and-Stan-Silva-at-the-packing-plant-for-their-family-farm-Doreva-Produce.-Their-familys-been-farming-in-Merced-County-for-over-100-years.-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34234_Aaron-and-Stan-Silva-at-the-packing-plant-for-their-family-farm-Doreva-Produce.-Their-familys-been-farming-in-Merced-County-for-over-100-years.-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34234_Aaron-and-Stan-Silva-at-the-packing-plant-for-their-family-farm-Doreva-Produce.-Their-familys-been-farming-in-Merced-County-for-over-100-years.-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34234_Aaron-and-Stan-Silva-at-the-packing-plant-for-their-family-farm-Doreva-Produce.-Their-familys-been-farming-in-Merced-County-for-over-100-years.-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34234_Aaron-and-Stan-Silva-at-the-packing-plant-for-their-family-farm-Doreva-Produce.-Their-familys-been-farming-in-Merced-County-for-over-100-years.-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34234_Aaron-and-Stan-Silva-at-the-packing-plant-for-their-family-farm-Doreva-Produce.-Their-familys-been-farming-in-Merced-County-for-over-100-years.-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34234_Aaron-and-Stan-Silva-at-the-packing-plant-for-their-family-farm-Doreva-Produce.-Their-familys-been-farming-in-Merced-County-for-over-100-years.-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34234_Aaron-and-Stan-Silva-at-the-packing-plant-for-their-family-farm-Doreva-Produce.-Their-familys-been-farming-in-Merced-County-for-over-100-years.-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aaron and Stan Silva at the packing plant for their family farm, Doreva Produce. Their family has been farming in Merced County for over 100 years. \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nutria aren’t native to California, or the United States. Fur farmers brought the South American rodent to Southern California in the late 1800s as an attempt to make an affordable mink alternative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite multiple attempts, the nutria fur business never took off — but the rodents went feral. California’s Department of Food and Agriculture determined that they were eradicated in the 1970s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But last year, a few \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11649794/california-officials-set-up-invasive-swamp-rodent-hotline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">were spotted again in Merced County\u003c/a>, and they’re multiplying. Nutria can have up to 200 babies a year. By this April, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife had to create a task force. Now, the rodents are on the move, north toward the San Joaquin Delta, California’s most important water source.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re just a menace,” Silva says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is why, for the last few months, the Silva family has given away thousands of pounds of what they grow because what’s most at threat for the Silvas — their sweet potatoes — just happen to be unlikely weapons in the fight against the nutria scourge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11708874\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11708874\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34239_The-Silvas-are-one-of-a-few-farming-families-in-Merced-County-giving-away-their-produce-to-help-fight-an-invasive-pest-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34239_The-Silvas-are-one-of-a-few-farming-families-in-Merced-County-giving-away-their-produce-to-help-fight-an-invasive-pest-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34239_The-Silvas-are-one-of-a-few-farming-families-in-Merced-County-giving-away-their-produce-to-help-fight-an-invasive-pest-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34239_The-Silvas-are-one-of-a-few-farming-families-in-Merced-County-giving-away-their-produce-to-help-fight-an-invasive-pest-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34239_The-Silvas-are-one-of-a-few-farming-families-in-Merced-County-giving-away-their-produce-to-help-fight-an-invasive-pest-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34239_The-Silvas-are-one-of-a-few-farming-families-in-Merced-County-giving-away-their-produce-to-help-fight-an-invasive-pest-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Silvas are one of a few farming families in Merced County giving away their produce to help fight an invasive pest. \u003ccite>(Angela Johnston/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Stan Silva’s grandparents came to the Central Valley from the Azores and Lisbon, Portugal, in the early 1900s, and started farming on small plots. Now, the \u003ca href=\"http://dorevaproduce.com/\">Silva family farm\u003c/a> grows sweet potatoes on 850 acres and supplies the largest retailers in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We dump ‘em in our wash tank here, they continue on through the conveyor, through the heater, and the ladies on the other end are sorting and packing to go to market,” Stan Silva says as he walks around the packing facility with his son and grandson — three generations of farmers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the back is a huge gyro machine, which processes 30 bags of sweet potatoes in a minute. Grandson Rueger Silva is in charge of its operation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11708881\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11708881\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34237_Sweet-potatoes-at-the-Silva-farm-make-their-way-to-the-cleaning-tank-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34237_Sweet-potatoes-at-the-Silva-farm-make-their-way-to-the-cleaning-tank-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34237_Sweet-potatoes-at-the-Silva-farm-make-their-way-to-the-cleaning-tank-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34237_Sweet-potatoes-at-the-Silva-farm-make-their-way-to-the-cleaning-tank-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34237_Sweet-potatoes-at-the-Silva-farm-make-their-way-to-the-cleaning-tank-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34237_Sweet-potatoes-at-the-Silva-farm-make-their-way-to-the-cleaning-tank-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sweet potatoes at the Silva farm make their way to the cleaning tank. \u003ccite>(Angela Johnston/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I’m only 18, but my dad had a heart attack so I had to come back and help with everything,” he says as he darts around the machine, pressing buttons and checking the conveyor belt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In late summer, 44-year-old Aaron Silva had a massive heart attack that left him hospitalized for a month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Rueger] left college to come back to help on the ranch until his father gets further along here,” Stan Silva says proudly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aaron Silva is still recovering from a brain injury that was a side effect of the heart attack. He says he’s having to relearn longtime customers’ names and faces. But, he says, he didn’t lose any memory of the process of farming and packing sweet potatoes. Farming is in his blood, and he doesn’t want anything to threaten it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just 20 miles from the packing plant, \u003ca href=\"https://www.wildlife.ca.gov/\">Department of Fish and Wildlife\u003c/a> biologist Sean McCain is spying on some nutria making nests in a marsh full of tule reeds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11708876\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11708876\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34235_Sean-McCain-from-Californias-Department-of-Fish-and-Wildlife-points-out-nutria-habitat.-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34235_Sean-McCain-from-Californias-Department-of-Fish-and-Wildlife-points-out-nutria-habitat.-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34235_Sean-McCain-from-Californias-Department-of-Fish-and-Wildlife-points-out-nutria-habitat.-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34235_Sean-McCain-from-Californias-Department-of-Fish-and-Wildlife-points-out-nutria-habitat.-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34235_Sean-McCain-from-Californias-Department-of-Fish-and-Wildlife-points-out-nutria-habitat.-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34235_Sean-McCain-from-Californias-Department-of-Fish-and-Wildlife-points-out-nutria-habitat.-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34235_Sean-McCain-from-Californias-Department-of-Fish-and-Wildlife-points-out-nutria-habitat.-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34235_Sean-McCain-from-Californias-Department-of-Fish-and-Wildlife-points-out-nutria-habitat.-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34235_Sean-McCain-from-Californias-Department-of-Fish-and-Wildlife-points-out-nutria-habitat.-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34235_Sean-McCain-from-Californias-Department-of-Fish-and-Wildlife-points-out-nutria-habitat.-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34235_Sean-McCain-from-Californias-Department-of-Fish-and-Wildlife-points-out-nutria-habitat.-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sean McCain, from California’s Department of Fish and Wildlife, points out nutria habitat. \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think they know we’re here yet,” he whispers as he sneaks up to the edge of the marsh. He points out a few of the rodents, which look like a cross between rats and beavers, with scaly tails, webbed feet and big orange bucked teeth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McCain first saw a family of nutria here two weeks ago, and since then he’s been coming back to this spot almost every day to check on them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been watching the vegetation recede away from the middle of the pond,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nutria can eat up to 25 percent of their body weight in one day. They munch on the roots of green duckweeds, cattails and tule reeds. If they clear-cut an entire marsh like this one, they put all the birds and frogs and other species that depend on it at risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nutria problem is potentially so big that the Department of Fish and Wildlife is pulling staff from all over the state for on-the-ground training.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11649829/swamp-creatures\">Swamp Creatures\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11649829/swamp-creatures\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/calnutria_021318_final-1180x1180.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>At another pond, the team hasn’t seen any nutria in the flesh, so they’re setting up a wildlife camera to see if they can capture them on tape, and creating a feeding platform within the camera’s range.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They wade into chest-deep water, yank reeds out of the marsh to make a little nest, and put bait on a wooden platform: bright orange slices of sweet potato to lure the rodents. It turns out, nutria love its color and taste.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McCain does this kind of work all day long: trying to get eyes on nutria, assessing their habitat and checking cameras to determine the right place for traps. When we get back to the car, he plugs an SD card from one of the wildlife cameras into his laptop and we watch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There we go,” he says as a big family of nutria sneak onto the screen. “Those are adult nutria, and that one just stole our sweet potato.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now that the team has confirmed a big family of nutria in this swamp, they’ll send in trappers, who will set traps all over the area to start to eradicate this population one by one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11708867\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11708867\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34236_California-Department-of-Fish-and-Wildlifes-Greg-Gerstenberg-shows-off-a-frozen-nutria-head.-Theyve-captured-just-over-330-of-the-invasive-species-so-far..-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"The California Department of Fish and Wildlife has captured just over 330 nutria so far.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34236_California-Department-of-Fish-and-Wildlifes-Greg-Gerstenberg-shows-off-a-frozen-nutria-head.-Theyve-captured-just-over-330-of-the-invasive-species-so-far..-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34236_California-Department-of-Fish-and-Wildlifes-Greg-Gerstenberg-shows-off-a-frozen-nutria-head.-Theyve-captured-just-over-330-of-the-invasive-species-so-far..-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34236_California-Department-of-Fish-and-Wildlifes-Greg-Gerstenberg-shows-off-a-frozen-nutria-head.-Theyve-captured-just-over-330-of-the-invasive-species-so-far..-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34236_California-Department-of-Fish-and-Wildlifes-Greg-Gerstenberg-shows-off-a-frozen-nutria-head.-Theyve-captured-just-over-330-of-the-invasive-species-so-far..-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34236_California-Department-of-Fish-and-Wildlifes-Greg-Gerstenberg-shows-off-a-frozen-nutria-head.-Theyve-captured-just-over-330-of-the-invasive-species-so-far..-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The California Department of Fish and Wildlife has captured just over 330 nutria so far. \u003ccite>(Angela Johnston/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s part of a larger plan taking place at the Nutria Incident Command Center at an old hunting check station near Los Banos, California. Greg Gerstenberg holds down the fort here as the Incident Command chief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the deep freeze out back, Gerstenberg rummages around for frozen nutria. He pulls out nutria heads and bottles of their urine — helpful for trapping. They’re keeping these for training, and they give some to other departments for taxidermy and display in their offices, in case a farmer wanted to come and see what one looked like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’re also looking at how other states have dealt with the problem. Louisiana is offering a bounty to hunters to counter their out-of-control nutria problem. Gerstenberg is modeling California’s efforts on Chesapeake Bay’s, where they successfully eradicated nutria.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11660045/californias-lost-wetlands-reborn-thanks-to-central-valley-rice-farms\">California’s Lost Wetlands Get Help From Sacramento Valley Rice Farms\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11660045/californias-lost-wetlands-reborn-thanks-to-central-valley-rice-farms\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/SnowGeeseOnRice-1180x770.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>On the walls of the command center, huge maps of the Central Valley and San Joaquin Delta are covered with pink, yellow and blue dots showing where nutria have been spotted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gerstenberg says, after capturing nutria on camera in the southern Delta, Fish and Wildlife will pull their resources from Merced County and create a sort of fire line just north of this sighting, limiting and pushing the nutria out before they start to multiply in the Delta.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state has trapped over 330 nutria since April. Gerstenberg says he hopes they’re not in the thousands, but he has no way to confirm or estimate the nutria’s number.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our goal is to remove them quicker than they’re reproducing,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>A version of this story first aired on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kalw.org/programs/crosscurrents#stream/0\">KALW’s Crosscurrents\u003c/a>. It was produced in collaboration with the \u003ca href=\"https://thefern.org/\">Food & Environment Reporting Network\u003c/a>, a nonprofit investigative news organization.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Back in 1983, it seemed like a good idea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local populations of California \u003ca href=\"https://www.wildlife.ca.gov/Conservation/Marine/NCCFRMP/White-Seabass\">white seabass\u003c/a> — a favorite among recreational and commercial fishermen, prized for its mild, tender, flaky white flesh — were declining. While a fishery management plan didn’t exist back then, sports fishermen had noticed a decline in their catches and asked officials for help. State lawmakers then reached out to the marine biologists at Hubbs-SeaWorld Research Institute in San Diego to see if they could boost stocks by trying something unusual — raising the fish in a hatchery and releasing them into the sea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wasn’t an entirely new idea. Americans have been attempting to raise fish in hatcheries in some form or another for at least 150 years. But this would be the first time scientists would try it with white seabass, launching a program that would become a model for other states hoping to bolster waning populations of wild fish — a process known as marine enhancement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as is often the case, things weren’t so simple.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some 35 years and nearly $40 million later, the future of the Ocean Resources Enhancement and Hatchery Program (as it’s formally called) is in jeopardy: The first \u003ca href=\"https://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=154110&inline\">formal scientific evaluation\u003c/a> has concluded that the program had increased white seabass populations by less than 1 percent — a stunningly low success rate. 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