Bushy-tailed woodrats Neotoma cinerea occupy a range of habitats from boreal woodlands to deserts.
Swamp Rat I at Bakersfield in 1959 Steve Gibbs Photo Through 1959 Don toured with the car basically unchanged from when he set the records in November 1957 and attended races from one coast to the other.
But a fur-market crash in the 1980s removed the incentives for trappers and left the nutria population unchecked.