Thousands of nutria have been removed from California since their reintroduction in 2017, and researchers believe the reintroduction was purposeful due to the significant distance between Oregon and California’s Central Valley.
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‘We need to work as a community’: Students call for pest control changes
In Fall of 2025, Seeta Sistla noticed a build up of rodenticide boxes, or bait boxes for rats and other pests, on campus. The natural resources management and environmental sciences professor emailed Cal Poly’s sustainability team and Facilities Customer and Business Services about the issue. After a month of email correspondence, she received an explanation […]