Posted by Wolf on January 28, 2009, 6:48 am
I have been researching Texas hunting laws in particular and all Southern states laws in general on the subject of the increasing population of feral hogs and the diseases they carry seem to have one cry in common. The two causes of increased population of feral hogs is the destruction of natural predators and relocation.
The destruction of natural predators.
The bear, bobcat and coyote are the natural predators of the hogs. They prey on the young which in time descimates the population.
However the bear, bobcat and coyote are hunted.
The bear, bobcat and coyote do not destroy crops. Well maybe the bears eat a few blueberries but the South does not grow blueberries.
Relocation
The second is the capturing and relocation of feral hogs by hunters to create new hunting areas.
What does this say about the reasoning of the necessity of hunting hogs when hunters are not the solution but the problem. It would make sense that not hunting natural predators to extinction, no longer relocating hogs to new areas to create new hunting grounds is stopped and the farmers that raise hogs have more regulations in keeping domestic hogs from ranging into the wild and proprogating the herds of ferals, that the natural order might have a chance. This way everyone would profit from the efforts of a few.
This way hunting could be effective, as at the moment it is not, but working with the order that is established the control of a rampant population might be within reach and crop and land damage might be considerably reduced and all could have a feral hog on their table if that is their desire.
No man is an island and community can be successful if people can learn to work as a team.
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