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Hunters trapping and transporting hogs to new locations has made such a tremendous impact that now…Oklahoma works to cut feral hog populations

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Hunters trapping and transporting hogs to new locations has made such a tremendous impact on feral hog populations that it is a felony to ship a live feral hog without a permit.

  • By Lacey Newlin
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Feral hog populations in Oklahoma are estimated to be anywhere from a million to 1.6 million. (Photo courtesy Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food and Forestry Wildlife Services.)
This little piggy went to market, this little piggy stayed home, this little piggy went wee-wee-wee and rooted up all the crops. Mother Goose’s nursery rhyme may refer to innocent piglets with no ill will toward agriculture, but in the real world feral hogs are anything but G-rated characters in a children’s book.

Feral hogs are a common nuisance in states like Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas, Kansas and Missouri. The United States Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service estimates the nationwide population of feral hogs to…

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  1. How appropriate for an article posted on April Fool’s Day. The American taxpayer is again the fool, paying for the damage wreaked by hunting interests; you know: the true conservationists who are expert at controlling populations of widely-distributed, slow-reproducing carnivores that live in depleted habitats and struggling to survive, while introducing invasive species for the fun of the hunt. Hunters in Florida have posted complaints about endangered Florida panthers because the big cats eat piglets, and might harm hunting activity. Taxpayers pay government to hunt the pigs, for bounties, compensation to farmers, higher prices at the grocery stores, loss of economic activity such as corn exports, and on & on. Of course, hunters being such knowledgeable people regarding species, will use bait to attract the pigs, “fair chase,” which increases the pigs’ fitness, so they have more piglets.What a great prank to provide blood sport for the only people who truly understand wildlife and how the real world works.

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