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Public Drinks it up.
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I can't fight back all the Media across Missouri - YOU THE PEOPLE OF MISSOURI can.
MISSOURI Media REFUSE to investigate only regurgitate press release from Jefferson City
If Electronic Human Activated why are they catching a deer?
FACT 1
NO GUARANTEE OF WHOLE SOUNDER SUCCESS!!!
When Animal Activated Traps are used. WELCOME TO MISSOURI!!! The majority of traps used. Missouri Department of Conservation owned only Traps as of July 10, 2019
Electronic Human Activated
Qty. 7 – Boarbusters
Qty. 2 – Jager Pro
Total of 9 Electronic Human Activated Traps
Animal Activated Traps
Qty. 3 – Box
Qty. 88 – Drop Traps
Qty. 147 – Guillotine
Qty. 47 – Saloon/Rooter
Total 285 Animal Activated Traps
If Electronic Human Activated why are they catching a deer, one to three hogs?
Total 294 Hogs Traps owned by MDC.
NO GUARANTEE OF WHOLE SOUNDER SUCCESS!!! When Animal Activated Traps are used. WELCOME TO MISSOURI!!! The majority of traps used.
NO CELL SERVICE!
"2019 Media Report - Landowner - For the past 18 years of trapping by the USDA, he’s been raising livestock on 600 acres surrounded by the BELL MOUNTAIN WILDERNESS AREA a in Iron County, Mo and they have trapped another 187 hogs." 18 years of trapping? Really that is success – In the same media Report Trapper said they would find hog in traps – How is that possible if they viewed it on phone or computer? Answer: Animal Activated Traps
FACT 2
PEOPLE OF MISSOURI YOU DO THE MATH!
You have population growth percentage from your own press statements MDC at 166%.
Hog sex ratio at birth is 1 to 1 per Texas Game and Fish
You have official government population estimate for multiple years!
You have official government kill numbers all over the Missouri media and you have them.
What is the feral hog population is in Missouri?
Missouri Department of Conservation Professionals, Biologist Quote – “70 percent of the feral hog population needs to be removed yearly to keep populations of feral hogs from increasing.”
FY 2008 - Associated Press – Missouri Department of Conservation Officials estimate more than 10,000 feral hogs state
FY 2008 – Missouri Department of Conservation Kills 500 Feral Hogs.
FY 2009 - St. Louis Magazine - There are thought to be 5,000 to 10,000 wild pigs living in Missouri
FY 2009 – Missouri Department of Conservation Kills 600 Feral Hogs.
FY 2010 - Farm Journal - Missouri has between 5,000 and 10,000 feral pigs spread across the state officials estimate.
FY 2010 – Missouri Department of Conservation Kills 700 Feral Hogs.
FY 2014 - U.S. Fish and Wildlife - Mingo National Wildlife Refuge Final Draft - Missouri Department of Conservation estimates there are 10,000 feral swine in the state.
FY 2014 – Missouri Department of Conservation Kills 2,371 Feral Hogs.
FY 2015 - Joplin Globe - It is estimated that there are about 10,000 feral hogs in Missouri
FY 2015 – Missouri Department of Conservation Kills 3,649 Feral Hogs.
FY 2016 - MDC Bans Feral Hog Hunting on MDC Conservation Lands.
FY 2017 – United States Department of Agriculture – Mark Twain National Forest – Forest Report – Estimated 20,000 to 30,000 Feral Hogs in the State of Missouri.
FY 2017 – Missouri Department of Conservation Kills 6,567 Feral Hogs.
FY 2018 - United States Department of Agriculture – Mark Twain National Forest FB – Estimated 30,000 to 40,000 Feral Hogs in the State of Missouri.
FY 2018 – Missouri Department of Conservation Kills 9,365 Feral Hogs.
FY 2019 – Missouri Department of Conservation Kills 10,495
FY 2020 – You do the math!!!!!!!!!!!!! You are the experts.
FACT 3
So the Official stance of the the Missouri Department of Conservation is that you killed 10,485 hogs which is 70% of the current feral hog population in Missouri?
or is it 50% of the current feral hog population in Missouri?
or is it 25% of the current feral hog population in Missouri?
FACT 4
Will the State of Missouri become a Level/Tier 4 Feral Hog State in 2020? Will MDC get part of the 75 million Pilot Program in 2020?
Tiered ranking based on feral hog densities from USDA calculations.
FY 2015 and 2016 Allocations
Level 5-$325,000 – (Today’s Pilot Program Level)
Level 4-$295,000 – (Today’s Pilot Program Level)
Level 3-$235,000 – (Today’s Missouri Level)
Level 2-$165,000
Level 1-$68,000
Detection Level-$42,000
Level 0-$0
Operational Component Funding Structure
Level of baseline funding allocated to each WS state program depends on feral swine populations, distribution, damage to resources, presence of potentially damaged resources and state, territorial, tribal, or local regulations impacting management efforts
Estimated State Populations
Level 5-Greater than 750,000 feral swine (Today’s Pilot Program)
Level 4-Between 100,000 and 750,000 feral swine (Today’s Pilot Program)
Level 3-Between 10,000 and 100,000 feral swine (Today’s Missouri Level)
Level 2-Between 1,000 and 10,000 feral swine
Level 1-Less than 1,000 feral swine
Detection Level-All know feral swine populations have been eliminated from a Level 1 state and surveillance/monitoring efforts will continue for a minimum of two additional years to ensure success
Level 0-No feral swine (feral swine were either never confirmed in the state or the state has been free of feral swine with no confirmed reports for more than two years
FACT 5
Research paid by mdc 2014 14,700 dollars. on the Mingo Wildlife Refuge in 2012 - Feral hog movement around the refuge.
This information to be more efficient in their hog eradication efforts.
Project continued through 2013. Cameras pulled in January of 2014.
Hog sign has been detected over a large area of the refuge.
Since January 2013, a total of 210 hogs have been taken from Mingo NWR
HOG DOGS – 54.8%
115 - Feral Hogs with HOG DOGS - A Special Use Permit (SUP) was issued to a hog tracker with “hog” dogs.
HUNTING / SHOOTING – 23.3%
25 - Feral Hogs taken by Hunters during the managed hunts for whitetail deer
24 – Feral Hogs shot by Staff over bait piles.
TRAPPING – 18.6% (MDC the most efficient method)
39 – Feral Hogs TRAPPED by MDC one full-time hog technician with panel traps, with bait.
Trapping was halted for deer and turkey seasons to prevent baiting issues.
SNARES – 2.9%
6 – Feral Hogs with CABLE RESTRAINTS (snares) set up in known locations by MDC full-time hog technician.
HELICOPTER – 0.5%
1 - Feral Hog was taken by MDC Helicopter
FACT 6
Missouri Department of Conservation Feral Hog Research from pages 14 thru 21 in 2009.
Feral Hog Research Project Final Report
Executive Summary
The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) began a feral hog research project in 2009 to analyze hog movements, cost efficiency of control efforts, and reproductive characteristics and growth rates of the population.
DID YOU KNOW? - 2009 - Our population growth rate estimates indicated that similar removal rates would be necessary to stabilize (62%) or reduce (71%) population growth.
DID YOU KNOW? - 2009 - Our data indicate that each individual sub-adult female is contributing less to the population than an adult female, as a lower percentage of sub-adults showed signs of active breeding at the time of capture. However, since there are more sub-adults in the population, they are contributing the same amount as a group as adults when considered as a group.
DID YOU KNOW? - 2009 - According to our data, the majority of control efforts should be applied from March – May and September – October, as these periods are likely to
Biggest problem of all. Read over twice.
DID YOU KNOW? - 2009 - Result in the removal of more pregnant females. This is currently in contrast to hog control operations in Missouri, as hog control is often put on hold during these times to reduce conflicts with hunting seasons on our public areas.
FACT 7
I curious with all this great success what is official comments on all these pet dogs killed or injured by wild hogs in Missouri
http://www.northamericanwildlifeandhabitat.com/missouri-pet-owners-in-wild-hog-areas.html
FACT 8
Retired LDWF Captain Bobby Buatt – MAY 2019
QUOTE: “I’m a firm believer in utilizing everything whether trapping, shooting, or HUNTING WITH DOGS!
Josh Helcel - Extension associate with NRI - specializes in educating Texans on wild pig biology, impacts and control – MAY 2019
QUOTE: “When and how trained dog teams are used can be paramount to their overall effectiveness as a control technique. Dogs are capable of removing wild pigs that weren't able to be removed following the enactment of other strategies. Research shows that trained dogs are most effectively used on residual populations as a final tool of sequenced control efforts."
www.agweb.com - May 2019
Texas A&M the NO. 1 Agriculture School in the nations MUST BE WRONG ALSO.
Successful Wild Pig Eradication Utilize Trained Dogs
You might want to read the research already done, 1989, 1995, 2001, 2007, 2008, 2010
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; whether through hunting drives, tracking or through direct pursuit and capture (Mcilroy and Saillard 1989; Caley and Ottley 1995; Schuyler et al. 2001; Parkes et al. 2010; Muir and McEwen 2007; McCann and Garcelon 2008; Scillitani et al. 2010). This is not to say that successful eradication without dogs is impossible, but rather to evidence that effective wild pig management often requires the use of all available tools.
FACT 9
Does this sound like success
MDC STAFF QUOTE: “Helicopter is useful in areas where terrain makes it difficult to set large traps, or where hogs have learned to avoid them. A helicopter gunner also is effective at KILLING THE LAST FEW HOGS in area that have managed to avoid being trapped.
MDC STAFF QUOTE: Helicopter flying low overhead would tend to make feral hogs bolt to escape the noise and obviously the sound of the helicopter will scatter them,
It took USDA Aphis 4 years to kill 885 hogs with Helicopter in the entire state of Missouri per Freedom of information act Requests results.
Opens Records Request Result from the Missouri Department of Conservation
2009 - Missouri Department of Conservation did Feral Hog Research.
Feral Hog Research Project Final Report
Executive Summary
The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) began a feral hog research project in 2009 to analyze hog movements, cost efficiency of control efforts, and reproductive characteristics and growth rates of the population.
This is what the Executive Summary said Trapping and Helicopter cost also.
With Helicopter – Aerial Gunning – 1,393.5 Man-Hours to kill 144 Wild Hogs or 9.70 Man Hours Per Hog
Helicopter $296.34 per hog
(If helicopters are killing the last few hogs why after 5 years the same areas are coming up again?)
2009 - Both the V.I. analysis and centroid distance analysis showed that hogs were least disturbed by trapping activities and most disturbed by aerial gunning with the helicopter.
2009 - Generally, our results were similar to others, in that while hunting with aerial gunning did have some impact on hog movements, those activities did not cause hogs to leave their home range or cause permanent shifts in their activity patterns
2009 - However, the average distance away hogs moved from the site of disturbance helicopter was approximately 1 km.,
2009 - It is likely that the activity will cause the hog to leave the area, but, in general, the hogs do not go very far and often return to the site after a period of time.
FACT 10
Who is RIGHT & Who is wrong about feral hogs being disease ridden – REALLY
Have you EVER once GOOGLE - Texas food banks and feral hogs - TOO MANY ARTICLES TO LIST –
In every press release know to man from the MDC says feral hogs are known to carry diseases trichinosis.
Ever once Google - buy feral hog meat online – Too many to list
Ever once Google - Europeans eat wild hog meat, that’s even on Hunting shows WILD BOAR FEVER 9 REDUX
DO YOU EAT RAW PORK FROM THE STORE?
HOGS FOR THE HUNGRY: TEXAN PROGRAM TO DONATE MEAT TO FOOD BANK - 100,000 pounds of pork donated to the Houston Food Bank
2,500 hogs, which will each produce around 40 pounds of meat.
They donate 30,000 lb. of pork to hunters for the hungry
https://www.feralhogsforthehungry.com/home.html
RIGHT OR WRONG – World renowned Chef Gordon Ramsay and the United States Army or Missouri.
https://youtu.be/6p5x0nxtqVs
RIGHT or WRONG – Missouri or Alabama
MDC Feral Hog Coordinator Quote "There are also public health considerations, as feral hogs carry diseases that are not found in pork available in grocery stores."
So is The USDA Wildlife Services, THE SAME partner in the fight against feral hogs in Missouri wrong also?
So which Game and Fish Department is RIGHT or WRONG – Missouri or Alabama
Then in Alabama they make a video on how to field dress and butcher. Provided by the very same USDA Wildlife Services, along with Alabama Cooperative Extension System, Auburn University School of Forestry Wildlife Services, Division of Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries and Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources
https://youtu.be/4w9IHZt3OGY
Black Bears in Missouri - They carry same disease that hogs do if you don’t cook it correctly https://www.cdc.gov/parasites/trichinellosis/hunters.html
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