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The Chesapeake Bay Nutria Eradication Project

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Nutria

Coast wide

Nutria

Control

Program

Delmarva

Nutria

Eradication

Project

Local

Control

& Rapid Response

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Chesapeake Bay Nutria Eradication Project

• Nutria in Maryland• Environmental impacts

Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge

1938 1989

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Saving the Bay

Economical CulturalEcological

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Chesapeake Bay Nutria Eradication Project 2002

Monitoring Areas

1. Choptank2. Nanticoke3. Transquaking4. Blackwater5. Wicomico6. Manokin

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• 9 watersheds infested

• Almost 14,000 nutria removed since 2002

• Approx. ¼ million acres of wetlands protected

• >400 private landowners received assistance

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Chesapeake Bay Nutria Eradication Project

• Status 2016• “Saturation Monitoring”• Monitoring/detection efforts• How do you prove absence?

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Nutria Detection Techniques

• Ground• Shoreline• Canines• Cameras• Monitoring Platforms/Hair Snares

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Importance of GIS

• Data collection• Mapping • Planning

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CONSERVATION OUTCOMES

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