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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,156 posts)
Thu Apr 1, 2021, 02:17 PM Apr 2021

The battle to control America's 'most destructive' species: feral pigs

COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINAA layer of frost clings to the grass on the morning Tony DeNicola sets out to check his trap. It’s late January in South Carolina. The sun is rising, the fog is lifting, and the frogs are croaking from somewhere in the dark loblolly pines. In a whisper, DeNicola explains what will happen.

“I wait for them to tire themselves out and then start tipping them over,” he says, shifting a loaded rifle from his shoulder and cautiously approaching a clearing in the forest beside a small cattle ranch.

DeNicola is a Yale-educated ecologist with the build of a wrestler, the jawline of a G.I. Joe, and a talent for making destructive species disappear. Most of the time, he runs a small nonprofit that does the dirty work of curtailing overabundant wildlife in national parks and quiet East Coast neighborhoods. But he came south from Connecticut to tackle America’s most destructive and seemingly unsolvable wildlife problem: the invasive feral hog.

Over centuries, this adaptable, omnivorous creature has rooted its way from Florida to Kansas, inundated Texas and California, and recently has been banging for entry at the northern border of Montana. Today, there are between six and nine million hogs running wild across at least 42 states and three territories. The exact number is difficult to pin down, and the estimated cost of the damage they cause—probably about $2.5 billion annually, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture—is likely an underestimate.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/battle-to-control-america-most-destructive-invasive-species-feral-pigs

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The battle to control America's 'most destructive' species: feral pigs (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Apr 2021 OP
I always thought if "they" could harvest the hogs and feed the poor would be a "twoFer"..nt mitch96 Apr 2021 #1
Good eating 4Q2u2 Apr 2021 #3
I heard they were a bit gamy and needed a bit of farm raised pork fat to make'em real good. nt mitch96 Apr 2021 #4
Here is info about that: efhmc Apr 2021 #5
I thought it was going to be 'Republican politicians' RainCaster Apr 2021 #2
I thought qpukes too! SheltieLover Apr 2021 #6
Same here! Canoe52 Apr 2021 #8
Wpuld make more sense, in the given context SheltieLover Apr 2021 #9
I read they can carry a virus that can sicken humans The Blue Flower Apr 2021 #7
 

4Q2u2

(1,406 posts)
3. Good eating
Thu Apr 1, 2021, 02:46 PM
Apr 2021

Had a few pig [Wild Hog] roast in Texas while TAD there.
They were trapped next to the Flight line in NAS Kingsville.

The Blue Flower

(5,420 posts)
7. I read they can carry a virus that can sicken humans
Thu Apr 1, 2021, 03:59 PM
Apr 2021

It was in an article I read some time ago, so I can't cite a source.

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