Folks brought them to MD hoping to grow them for fur.
Spread like WILDFIRE!
I remember the brutal winter of '77. Huge mounds of them,frozen together, on marshes in Dorchester county!'Feds finally REALLY put the bite on them the last few years at Blackwater NWR.
Basically eradicated there, but still pockets on private land ,and also spreading slightly north and west.
Also moving down onto coastal NC from Va.
Have a few in NJ as well.
Fun critter! Females have teats on their backs!
(insert joke here!)_
Last edited by JHM; 12/16/08 03:44 PM.
