Kentucky Banning Hog Hunting

[JimP]

What's the world coming to?

Colorado introducing wolves, wolverines, and wanting you to send them your ticks.

Now Kentucky is going to ban hog hunting in the hopes of slowing their advance.

Kentucky finalizing ban on hunting feral swine in hopes of slowing their advance - Winchester Sun

Because an “educated” pig is harder to track or trap, Kentucky is taking steps to prevent the hunting of feral hogs known to damage crops, woodlands and potentially spread disease. Kentucky wildlife management officials are finalizing a ban on the hunting of wild pigs in an effort to more...

www.winchestersun.com

 

[Alabama]

As someone who lives in an area with abundant wild hogs, I actually think this is a good idea. You have to remove about 70% of the population every year to keep their numbers at current levels. Any less and their numbers continue to grow. They do not tolerate pressure and will leave the land you have permission to hunt and just continue to breed on the neighbors property or get into an area that they are impossible to hunt (beaver swamps, flooded timber next to creeks and rivers). We tried the "shoot every one you see" method for a few years and the population just continued to grow. The only way we have made any difference is when we started trapping the whole sounder at once. We don't even attempt to catch a group unless they are all in the trap. This can take multiple days of watching the trap.

My brother farms about 800 acres near a creek and has caught over 200 there in the last 2 years.

Another local farmer caught 300+ on about 250 acres in 1 year.

Most here are using hog wire with 2 strands of high tensile barbed wire below it to fence them out of their fields. They patrol it and fill in any holes where they attempt to root under it. It's expensive but a sounder can destroy a whole years work in just a few days otherwise.

 

[D_Dubya]

Good luck with that…in Texas they are trapped, shot from helicopters, shot on sight, hunted with dogs, shot with night vision, blown up with tannerite and still the things are everywhere. They do go nocturnal with just a little pressure and they are smart, so I would think the idea has merit, but if the population reaches “critical mass” I doubt they’ll eradicate them.

 

[Winchester]

Don’t let Colorado’s Governor Polis find out there are too many hogs in these other states … he’ll want to get them and “reintroduce” them to Colorado.

 

[ScottR]

To me this seems like desperation meeting the crazies ideas to get rid of hunting.

 

[kidoggy]

sounds like the logic our local ranchers employ. F&G has let elk herds grow to big, so their genius solution is to stop letting hunters access the herds. lol. WE are NOT a nation of thinkers!