Tag: Nestle J. Frobish

  • Exotic animals deployed as Delta ‘weed whackers’

    By Nestle J. Frobish Visitors to the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta are doing double takes lately as they encounter some newly introduced “biological controls” to keep a fast-spreading waterweed from damaging boat propellers and choking off waterways. Working with state water officials, UC Davis scientists last month released a herd or “bloat” of hippopotamuses from Botswana…