Missouri Wild Hog Crisis
Castor River Conservation Area
Wild Hog Refuge for Bollinger County, Missouri
Video Proof - March 2019 - This is what happen when you ban hunting a Wild Hog population explosion after three years.
Be sure and share this video of the Missouri Wild Hog Crisis to your local, and national politicians and your local and national media.
Welcome to Castor River Conservation Area, Over 1 mile of Hog Rooting along River road across Castor River below Castor River Conservation Area. Less than 1 mile from my property.
MDC is Feeding dense population of Wild Hogs at the Natural Area, Blue Pond. Wasn't so sad it would be funny. 7-minute drive to my property.
10 FACTS about Wild Hogs in Missouri
Have you ever heard any of the following in the Missouri or National MEDIA or by the MDC, or any of the lobby groups. Absolutely NOT!!!!!
REAL Feral Hog EXPERTS tell a different story.
FACT 1 - THIS LITTLE PIGGY WENT NORTH - Nathan P. Snow, USDA/APHIS/WS/National Wildlife Research Center. - Snow and his colleagues found that, during this period, the rate of northward expansion accelerated from. (4 miles/year to 7.8 miles/year) - The results of the model showed that invasive wild pigs are most likely to expand their range into adjacent areas that are similar to the ones they currently occupy. (IMAGE THAT IN MISSOURI) since southern Missouri is on the north expansion of the wild hog.
FACT 2 – Study’s show using GPS - Missouri has the greatest average movement rates for wild hogs & The average home range size was greatest in Missouri for Wild Hogs.
FACT 3 - Successful Wild Pig Eradication Utilize Trained Dogs - Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service is in the business of providing research-based information, and the research continues to affirm the validity of trained dogs among the tools in our wild pig management toolbox. - I am currently unaware of a single successful wild pig eradication study that did not utilize trained dogs in some form.
FACT 4 - Texas, Louisiana or Florida Biologist, Scientists and Agency who says they cannot
Quote “The feral hog has managed to survive, adapt, and increase their numbers despite attempts at population control. While it is possible to keep population in check with continued controls of 70 plus percent killed annually, it is highly unlikely to eradicate a hog population within established range."
FACT 5 - THE NORTH AMERICAN WILDLIFE CONSERVATION MODEL -
POPULATION REDUCTIONS or maintenance at appropriate levels are a clear case of HUNTERS acting as partners in wildlife management.
FACT 6 - THE NORTH AMERICAN WILDLIFE CONSERVATION MODEL - In some areas, overpopulation of Wildlife increases because LANDOWNER RESTRICT HUNTING. (MDC act as Landowners of MDC ground and restrict hunting)
FACT 7 - Thirteen states have established and increasing populations: AZ, KY, MI, MS, Missouri, NM, NY, NC, OH, OR, PA, VA and WI.
FACT 8 - Trapping only or Hunting only will NOT control the hog population much less eliminate in Missouri.
FACT 9 - Sows that are on this higher nutritional plane because of their access to the unintended supplement allows sows to undergo “flushing”: produce more eggs, have larger litters and have more pigs in their litters survive. (AKA Corn Food Plot still standing in March on MDC ground)
FACT 10 – To control Wild Hog Population it requires all methods be used. Trapping, Snaring, Hunting, Hunting with Dogs, and Shooting at Night.
MDC Trap on at the Blue Pond - With all that corn still in the food plots, REALLY!!!!
Photo's provided from a Concern Missouri Citizen.
Trap is on farther back of that field. Ranger tracks fresh in and out
MDC has had a Hog Trap at Sweet Gum sense 2015, but the hog damage is just as bad if not worse than the Blue Pond.
Wild Hog Damage around the Blue Pond Area.
Walk the road back towards blue pond, but once you get in back field, walk the right side of field back,
There is a spring back there and they got spots dug out big enough to fit full size trucks in
Castor River Conservation Area Shooting Range
Damage Across from at the end of Summer 2018 - LOL
The ridge where County Road 736 and Y meet . It's ate up up there too!!! The little pond is more of a waller than a pond!
They are from PP Highway all the way to the other side of Sweat Gum and Blue Pond.
Private Landowner's adjacent to and around Castor River Conservation Area
Comments have flooded in since posting videos on March 2nd, 2019
It ain't nothing to see groups of 50+ at one time and most likely if you see one group you will see the other 4-5 Sounders that like to roam that area. The Sounders range between 35 to 50 +
Private Landowner Adjacent to Castor River Conservation Area - I started seeing 2 Juvenile Wild Hogs in 2016 since then the problem has only gotten worse - I had photos now of up to 20 Wild Hogs in one photo.
Private Landowner 4 Miles West of Castor River and only a 1 mile west from Castor River Conservation Area- We have a 5 Acre Food plot that looks just like that across the river. From a Distance it looks as if it has been plowed.
CASTOR RIVER CONSERVATION AREA WILD HOG REFUGE
Missouri Feral Hog Refuge System - With the Wild Hog reports I have gotten and the landowners and hunters I have talk to, looks like 6.5 mile radius from Blue Pond the Epic center of Castor River Conservation Area and 84,948 acres.
Which in turn picked up Mingo Wildlife Refuge using the same 6.5 mile radius which looks like picks up Wappapello Lake. Imagine that.
