I'll tell you something.
If a guy got the blessing of the Ridgefield Refuge staff (I think there are a fair number of folks out there that volunteer for the fuge).
It might be possible to line up a nocturnal mission to control the nutria.
If one wanted,
they could easily sight in on a dozen if they did a loop or two around the vehicle course out there. (during the middle of the day).
You'd want to do it after hours because you could have the place to yourself.
From dawn to dusk, the place is crawling with folks, and cars and kids and "bird nerds".
Not that there is anything wrong with the aforementioned, but It'd be tough to pull off a good Nute Shoot with all of the people driving around.
I wonder what We'd need to do to pull off a quarterly "Nute shoot". on Fuge properties?
How could this be done in a way that the non-hunting public, and folks that may not understand the gravity of the invasion that the Nutria poses?
This would be one heck of an undertaking, and might require more than one "agent", in fact, It may take a team.
A dedicated all volunteer group.
We could have a guy that knows how to fabricate pretty much any kind of thing we might need.
Any implement, vehicle, or weapon needed to do the job. A low profile marsh craft, or an all terrain motorized radio controlled nutria chaser with an explosive tip which could be detonated by cell phone... that sort of thing, a "do it yourself expert".
We'd need a person that acted as a Public Relations/Negotiation specialist.
They'd have to be a people person, maybe one of the guys/gals from the forum that is in sales or marketing... a people person that knows how to navigate and "smooth the social waters", to calm the fears and apprehension of folks that might question the aggressive stance to the destructive foce of the Nutria.
We'd need someone with the ability to defy impossibility:
somehow they'd be able to spontaneously take on tasks never done before as though they'd done them all their life
an "idiot savant" of all things related to Marsh warfare.
I like that idea, someone that might not know how to pump gasoline or tie a slip knot, but was able to somehow communicate with the marsh creatures telepathically. That could be pretty handy.
We could call them "The Marsh raiders".
Oh yeah,
We'd need a guy that could put the whole thing together..
He'd need to have a cigar, and leather gloves.
(WWTRD)
What would Theodore Roosevelt do?
Anyone have a Nutria infestion?
DON'T LET'EM WIND YA!
duckboy
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