Nutria Eradication Program

Science activity #50110, updated 29 April 2022

Description / purpose

CDFW implemented the Nutria Eradication Incident Command System in 2018 to detect, assess, control and eradicate invasive nutria in the Sacramento San Joaquin Delta. The program includes rights of entry, camera traps, trapping and removal of 823 (to date) nutria.

Linked science activities

None specified

Collaborators

None specified

Activity status

1 Awarded / Initiating (1996)
2 In progress / Ongoing (1996 - 2019)
3 Complete

Funding summary

Total allocated funding: $0

Location

Subbasins

Delta regions

Geographic tags

None specified

Products and outputs

Type	Title	Description	Views
	Nutria Eradication Program Update 2019	Compiles efforts to date to get entry permits, dep	10
	Nutria Eradication Program website	Web site with description of program and links to	19

Type and context

Science action area

Unspecified

Management themes

Water supply management , Invasive / non-native species management , Flood risk and land use management

Science themes

Environmental conditions , Habitat changes , Land use and human activities , Species

Types

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Science functions

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Management actions

Water operations , Invasive species control and management , Flood control , Pathways of introduction of invasives

Science Topics

Levees , Sloughs , Backwater , Managed ponds , Nutria , Environmental drivers , Socio-economic drivers

Lead implementing organization

California Department of Fish and Wildlife [CDFW]

Partner implementing organizations

None specified

Funding organizations

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Funding programs

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Funding sources

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