Eat it, wear it, pet it or feed it to the gators. A goofy short exposition of nutria lore reveals the past, present and future of a Louisiana environmental pest. Brought to the bayou by the Tabasco baron to provide a limitless expanse of ladies’ fur coats, now the nutria destroys ever increasing wetland acreage each year. A few dreamers think rodent gumbo is the answer.  LB