MISSOURI FERAL HOG
SHOOT - DON'T REPORT AREA
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MDC Quote "It's only one boar no big deal"
Well how about two is that big freaking deal. Monster do exist at night.
Oh that's right your catching complete sounders. Guess you missed a few back in the day.
Castor River Conservation Area the Wild Hog Refuge of Bollinger county.
Good thing MDC plants 23 acres of corn in high population of hogs. Hate to shoot something little.
We are making progress. What a joke.
Feral Hog Task Force. You owe me $265.00 x 2. Don't worry you told me to stop Reporting. You got it brother.
Onto round 3. Public land still pumping them out.
When the Monsters come out at night! Your on your own!
Landowners in Missouri. Act now open a Feral Hog savings account, your going to need it. Experience talking!
Because you are on you own
MDC Alan Leary - USDA FARM BILL MONEY -
"We do not want money going to the private landowners"
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OPEN LETTER TO ALL MISSOURI MEDIA!
257 Days since I did the Report Don't Shoot. Agency gave up 34 days, then told me to stop Reporting in April. Still did nothing on Public Land it was coming from. Killed in Southeast Missouri by me on my property. Just keep reporting fake news out of Jefferson City.
UN-PUBLICIZE - MINGO WILDLIFE REFUGE WILD HOG RESEARCH
March 14th, 2014
Funded by Missouri Department of Conservation
2013 - Site specific control strategies for feral hogs on Mingo National Wildlife Refuge. $ 14,700. Funded, Missouri Department of Conservation.
OH the Agony of the when the truth rears its ugly head. This information has been out to the public for 6 year. Bet you never read this on Missouri Agency Propaganda Ministry, Lobbyist puppets website and during the interview with News Media they must have forgot to mention all the rest of the hogs killed.
Just in case you think the Feds are running Mingo – NOPE the Feral Hog Task Force is.
Just when you thought it was safe to enter the swamp. duunnn dunnn… duuuunnnn duun… duuunnnnnnnn dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dunnnnnnnnnnn dunnnn ...
Lets knock the mud off your boots boys and girls – ROFLMAO
Research 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 (see graph below).
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) BHAAAAA
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% - (MDC killing the last remainder of hogs) BHAAAAA
1 - Feral Hog was taken by MDC Helicopter
After approval from the Regional Office, the refuge partnered with MDC to attempt aerial control of hogs with the use of a helicopter and gunner Wednesday, March 20, 2013. We closed the refuge to all public access due to the management activity. All refuge staff was on hand to make sure that all access points onto the refuge was successfully guarded to prevent public access during the operation. The public was notified that the refuge was closed, and a local news station covered the story before the operation began. One hog was killed during the aerial operation. Efforts were limited due to the large size of the refuge and heavy tree cover and brush coupled with vast areas of standing water which caused a glare from the sun and made it difficult for the gunner to see. The tree cover and brush was thick and allowed the hogs to run and hide from the gunner.
Just in case you wanted to read the article again. BHAAAAA
(2013 - The Missouri Department of Conservation will conduct a one-day aerial operation to control feral hogs in Mingo National Wildlife Refuge. MDC Staff Quote: With traps, you might get 15 hogs. If we can get out with the helicopter and get 40 or 50 in one day, so that's so much more efficient.”
https://www.stlmag.com/news/Off-the-Pigs-On-Shooting-Hogs-From-Helicopters-If-You-Can-Spot-Them/
Feral Hogs Feral hogs became quite a frequent topic of discussion for refuge staff throughout 2013. In the current hunting regulations for the refuge, feral hogs can only be taken incidental to any refuge hunt with weapons legal for that hunt until the daily bag limit of game is taken. With the word spreading about the growing hog population on the refuge, the refuge office received numerous phone calls regarding the topic of why the refuge does not allow people to hunt specifically for hogs.
The reason for this is TO SUPPORT THE STANCE OF THAT MDC IS TAKING WITH FERAL HOGS. The state doesn’t want to encourage the culture of hog hunting because of the fear that it could lead to people releasing feral hogs on public land. Also, INDIVIDUALS HUNTING FOR FERAL HOGS INTERFERE WITH CURRENT MANAGEMENT ACTIVITES BY REFUGE STAFF AND THE FERAL HOG TASK FORCE. Even with the refuge’s regulation of incidental take of feral hogs, there were still an alarming number of hogs killed on the refuge this year.
QUOTE OF THE DAY!
“COMPLETE ERADICATION IS NOT POSSIBLE IN MOST SYSTEMS, AND CERAINLY NO AT MINGO NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE WHERE THE AREA IS LARGE.”
Funded by Missouri Department of Conservation.
MINGO WILDLIFE REFUGE WILD HOG RESEARCH
March 14th, 2014
2013 - Site specific control strategies for feral hogs on Mingo National Wildlife Refuge. $ 14,700. Funded, Missouri Department of Conservation.
Information will never see published by Missouri Agency Propaganda Ministry, Lobbyist puppets website and or the complicit and ignorant of the outdoors mainstream Missouri News Media.
So, let me get this straight –
Research was funded on Federal Ground by the Taxpayers of the State of Missouri in which showed that trapping was a method needed but not the most or only efficient method of population control and that eradication was not possible.
Then the Missouri Feral Hog Task Force who’s leadership is still in charge today – decided to NOT to PUBLICIZE the results, and in turn advertise eradication not control, and to restrict hunting /shooting/use of dogs for killing of Feral Hogs on 79,000 acres to 23.3% & 54.8% effectiveness research proven method two years later in 2016.
Now pushes the Mark Twain National Forest to do the same on 1.5 million acres 5 years later.
I guess Deputy Director AJ worse nightmare has become true – Feral Hogs have gotten value – Only problem it is to the FERAL HOG TASK FORCE!
Just as a FYI – Numbers have been proven over and over and over again.
HUNTING - Billy Higginbotham - Professor and Extension Wildlife and Fisheries Specialist
Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service in a published video
“One of the many tools is hunting, that can kill 24% of the population.”
MISSOURI TRAPPING – At least they are getting better statewide. LOL
2017 Wild Pigs Removed 6,567 for entire state – USFS MTNF – 20,000 to 30,000 population
(32% to 21%)
2018 Wild Pigs Removed 9,300 - USFS MTNF – 30,000 to 40,000
(23% TO 31%)
Sorry back to research. ROFLMAO – I LOVE LIFE!
March 14th, 2014
2013 Site specific control strategies for feral hogs on Mingo National Wildlife Refuge. $ 14,700. Funded, Missouri Department of Conservation.
Mingo National Wildlife Refuge, our preliminary data show the population has grown from about 30 animals 2 years ago, to roughly 1800 animals today.
(OH MY GOSH) But that was not in the official management plan published to the public – MINGO NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE HUNTING CHAPTER of VISITOR SERVICES PLAN
U. S. Fish & Wildlife Service Midwest Region 2014
Mingo is 21,592 acres and has a population of wild hogs of 400-700
Complete eradication is not possible in most systems, and certainly not at MNWR where the area is large
In this project, I supplement control efforts already underway (aerial gunning, Judas pigs, dogs and shooting) through the MDC and USFWS with long term, less costly control efforts (traps and snares, opportunistic shooting). In conjunction with the MDC and USFWS, we have established 8 corral traps (4 rooter gate, 4 C-gate) in each of four target areas on MNWR, as well as a trap line of hog snares in each area.
Morphological data (head and body length, tail length, hind foot length, ear length, girth, sex and reproductive status are recorded for each removed animal. Hair samples are collected for genetic assays to determine the population of origin and if deliberate releases of new animals into the population occur.
The USFWS has employed a professional hunter with dogs to shoot feral swine on MNWR for 6 weeks.
Similarly, the MDC has an aerial gunning team that has been deployed on MNWR during periods of snow cover in an effort to remove large numbers of animals opportunistically. We have been provided with all costs for personnel, helicopter expenses, ammunition etc. for these activities, as well as numbers of animals removed, and can thus also compute cost per hog removed.
NOW WE ALL KNOW WHERE THIS NUMBER CAME FROM!!!
“2014 Missouri Study Aerial shooting at $296 per pig, Jump said.
Brad Jump, Springfield, Missouri’s feral swine coordinator for USDA - Wildlife Services.”
5 years later MDC quoted that it only cost 32 to 35 dollar to kill each of the 127 wild hogs at Mingo in 2019 –
Man cost of everything has gone down
Missouri Feral Hogs Home Range 5,930 Acres – Have you ever heard this one time in the past 7 years?
Missouri Agency, Missouri Lobbyist and the Missouri Media seems never to report the fact that they are already aware of. Missouri Feral Hogs Home Range 5,930 Acres. Instead they say hunters are moving hogs. BhAAAAAA
Feral Hogs in Missouri home range using radio telemetry to assess movements of Feral Hogs in 2012 is 5,930 acres. Chuelo, A., 2012, Feral hogs in Missouri, in 2012 International Wild Pig Conference, Science and Management, April 15–18, 2012 Chuelo (2012) reported Missouri wild pigs with an average home range of 2,400 ha.
Mississippi. They reported that dry-season home ranges were larger (640 ha) than wet-season home ranges (300 ha)
Texas and Oklahoma of 4,100 and 2,900 ha, respectively. When compared to those in our study, wild pigs in the more arid climates have consistently greater home ranges
Aging Feral Swine in the Field or in Lab
https://www.aphis.usda.gov/wildlife_damage/feral_swine/pdfs/Aging%20Feral%20Swine%20Tech%20Note%20and%20Photo%20Guide_April%202018.pdf
Determining the age structure of a feral swine provides insight into the population's biological fitness and ecological well being of Feral Hogs in Missouri.
This knowledge is beneficial for evaluating the FAILURES of REMOVAL efforts by the Missouri Agencies backed by their lobbyist.
The average life expectancy, under good conditions, "WELCOME TO MISSOURI" in a wild hog population is about four to five years; however, they may live up to eight years.
That is why they bury "aka LEAVE ROTTING ON GROUND" because if they start SPENDING MONEY ON RESEARCH INSTEAD OF ADVERTISING showing wild hogs, especially sows that are 4 to 8 years old.
They can't make statements like this. May 2019 - Certified wildlife biologist with MDC, Alan Leary QUOTE: “I see us in 5 or 10 years showing eliminated populations of feral hogs across the state,”
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Wild Hog incisors is out and ready to send to lab. Taxidermists said something interesting. The animals from around the world he has worked on the Wild Hog compares to Cape Buffalo just the toughest, bones, skulls, and hide
MISSOURIAN'S BRACE YOURSELF
Don't you hate when facts rear it's ugly head.
Remember MDC and the world says it takes 70% killed to keep population wild hogs stable.
Mark Twain National Forest closing 1.5 Million of acres to the killing of Wild Hogs on some of the roughest most remote terrain in Missouri to trapping only.
Research out of Texas on 1.8 Million acres of accessible landowners land had to use all methods to break 70% because trapping could only get into 50% range.
Published 6 years before MDC implemented ban on killing wild hogs MDC ground and 2 years before research in Missouri proved the same thing.
All methods required.
Brace yourself Missouri.
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1.5 Million Acres - Cost to Control
Former USFWS employee states that this comment period is just lip service, a mandatory requirement to make shirts in D.C. feel they've done something for those opposed. The decision has already been made to close.
How much does it Cost to buy control of 1.5 Million Acres in Missouri? Best way is in installments, using other’s people money. Mark Twain National Forest is part of the national forest system which is an agency of the Department of Agriculture. Wildlife Services is a federal agency under the U.S. Department of Agriculture The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is a large multi-faceted agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Missouri Department of Conservation payments to Vendors
Fiscal Year Vendor Name Payments Total
2012 USDA APHIS GERERAL $55,289.73
2013 USDA APHIS GERERAL $55,289.72
2015 USDA APHIS GERERAL $65,000.00
2016 USDA APHIS GERERAL $65,000.00
2017 USDA APHIS GERERAL $115,000.00
2018 USDA APHIS GENERAL $1,885,000.00
2019 USDA APHIS GENERAL $1,865,000.00 Grand Total - $4,170,579.45 You think U.S. Department of Agriculture gives a Hog Butt what you think. Better break out your check book.
May 19th, 2019 - Hog Damage but no longer asked to report
New damage to fishing lake since May 1st. Must be my imagination or Armadillos. Certified Wildlife Biologist with MDC, Alan Leary -
QUOTE: May 2019 - We know trapping is working and diminishing populations because we see fewer signs of damage from feral hogs.
Missouri Welcome to your future with 2 Million Acres of Wild Hog Refuge.
45 MINTUES
https://www.aphis.usda.gov/wildlife_damage/state_office/state_web/new_mexico/Feral%20Hog%20Biology%20Behavior%20and%20Management%20(3).pdf
Missouri Welcome to your future with 2 Million Acres of Wild Hog Refuge.
Feral Hog Biology, Impacts and
Eradication Techniques
USDA APHIS Wildlife Services New Mexico
November 1, 2010
During the same study, ten depredation events of lambs were observed and documented.
All ten cases disclosed the following sequence of events:
• 10 seconds after death – feral hog bites through ventral side of thorax and with forefeet on body, rips lamb open
• 2-10 minutes after death – hog has removed the heart, lungs, liver, stomach and intestines
• 11-20 minutes after death – hog has eaten the ends of ribs, broken the back, and pulled one or both forelegs,
exposing the muscle to the stifle joint; hog has removed muscle from scapula, humerus and radius
• 21-30 minutes after death – hog has eaten muscle on ventral side of backbone, backbone and ribs, and all muscle from legs, which are exposed to stifle joint
• 31-37 minutes after death – hog has crushed skull and eaten brains, eyes and tongue; has trampled skin and eaten portions; may have eaten tibiae and radii
• 38-45 minutes after death – only metatarsi and phalanges, with fragments of skull and other bones, remain
“THOSE WHO CANNOT REMEMBER THE PAST ARE DOOMED TO REPEAT IT”
Feral Hog Biology, Impacts and
Eradication Techniques
USDA APHIS Wildlife Services New Mexico
November 1, 2010
Eradication Techniques
In the United States, the most common methods of feral hog eradication include box trapping, corral trapping, ground hunting, aerial operations, snaring and hunting with dogs. Each strategy has merit depending on objectives, landscape, local regulations and funding. Each strategy is variable, both in cost and number of hogs that may be removed at any one time by its application. Hunting
Ground hunting techniques are popular among control and eradication efforts across the United States and foreign countries. There are numerous newly developed tools including advanced optics, truck mounted blinds, forward looking infrared [FLIR] optics, electronic game callers and feeder lights. Baying hounds may also be used to remove feral hogs. Opponents of ground hunting, particularly with baying hounds, argue that feral hogs will disperse great distances. Maillard and Fournier (1995) ascertained that home range increased three fold during drive hunting seasons, although daily movements DID NOT increase by any appreciable amount.
Conversely, Pohlmeyer and Sodeikat (2003) found that when hunts were limited to less than 3 disturbances within 14 days, BOARS DID NOT LEAVE THEIR HOME RANGE.
Even when hunts exceeded this frequency, boar did not move further than 6 km. Both studies involved baying hounds and structured drive hunts through known boar habitat. Hounds have been used in seven noted eradication programs from 1973-2006 (McCann and Garcelon 2007). Feral hog removal with hounds was far more effective on solitary animals and small sounders and decreased as numbers increased (Cowled et al. 2005). The eradication of feral hogs from Santa Cruz Island involved trained dogs working in short arc configurations with trained hunters. When the dogs would bay, the nearest hunter would converge and humanely dispatch the animal (Parkes et al. In press) .
Missouri Photo Proof
7/30/2017 – Time 6:18:53 – Hog Feeding
7/30/2017 – Time 6:29:14 – Hog Dogs in Pursuit
7/30/2017 – Time 9:55:08 – Hogs Return to Feed
Mark Twain National Forest
Thanks to S. 47, the Interior Secretary must consult with state wildlife officials and allow for public notice and comment before closing off any parcel of public land to sporting activities. Temporary closures are limited to 180 days and can only be renewed up to three times, but must also be narrowly justified. Permanent closures, meanwhile, require the Secretary to extensively document the rationale for the decision, how the Department responded to concerns raised through public comments, and demonstrate that closing the land was necessary.
Mark Twain National Forest closes to prevent interference with hog trapping.
Will Coon hunters with dogs be allowed?
Will Rabbit hunters with dogs be allowed?
Will Coyote hunters with dogs be allowed?
Where does it stop?
Current and Future Wild Hog Refuge of Missouri.
2019 THE YEAR OF THE PIG!
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PARTNERSHIP WITH PRIVATE LANDOWNER IN MISSOURI FOR FERAL HOG ERADICATION ADJACENT TO MISSOURI DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION GROUND.
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United States Fish and Wildlife Service: Article -
April 9th, 2018
https://www.fws.gov/southeast/articles/hunting-the-wild-hog/
WOW this is crazy talk using every tool Jefferson City, Mark Twain National Forest and lobbyist, you might want to want to buy some ads tell them too.
Report - Don't Shoot, the true Eradication Tool! How many hogs died in Missouri from taxpayer funded ads on radio, tv, newspaper and facebook?
The Missouri Feral Hog Task Force - Battle Cry
SHOW ME THE MONEY!!!!!!
Elrod uses every hunting tool in his bag to kill pigs: dried corn bait; thermal-imaging scopes; dogs Bobo (pit bull) and Rudy (black mouth cur); and traps. Trapping garners the highest yield, but takes a lot of time.
HMMM - Hunting, Dogs,Thermals, and Trapping is a part of the solution. Say it ain't so JOE!!!
He kills, on average, 1,117 hogs a year. (Another 400 or so pigs are taken annually by other DNR officials or during managed hunts.) In 2016, he killed 1,561 hogs – an Ossabaw record for the 12-year-old program.
Hunters: They also help keep the pig population down. Her plot of land became a hog sanctuary devoid of hunting.
The Big Myths about Feral Hogs
By Native Hog Journal
January 31, 2018
https://www.nativehog.org/the-big-myths-about-feral-hogs/
Does MDC or USDA APHIS have in hog trappers in Cape Girardeau County?
May 27th, 2019
Welcome to Cape Girardeau County.
8 miles Southwest of Jackson Missouri.
Hog migration across Missouri Landscape. Go figure. ROFLMAO
The Mark Twain National Forest proposed Forest Closure Order and INTERAGENCY efforts to eliminate feral hogs from Missouri.
Comments must be received during the official comment period between May 24, 2019 and July 23, 2019
https://www.fs.usda.gov/detail/mtnf/landmanagement/?cid=FSEPRD629017
Sent my Letter in to the Mark Twain National Forest proposed Forest Closure Order
The Mark Twain National Forest proposed Forest Closure Order and INTERAGENCY efforts to eliminate feral hogs from Missouri.
The Forest Service proposal should DECLINE to implement a closure. Instead of adding restriction it should implement every method of wild hog control.
Permanent closures require the Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue to extensively document the rationale for the decision, how the Department responded to concerns raised through public comments and demonstrate that closing the land was necessary.
Sonny Perdue a long-time supporter of hunters is going to close 1.5 million acres in Missouri to hunters trying to control the population of Feral Hogs?
Because the Missouri Department of Conservation said thru their EXTENSIVE research and scientific UNDOCUMENTED studies that they will be the first state to eradicate hogs.
It really comes down to a statement.
Missouri Department of Conservation “MDC” is 100% RIGHT and the rest of the country are WRONG!
Let’s start with your own statement.
USDA MTNF – Quote: “Presently, feral swine populations are well established in many counties in southern and central Missouri”
Here some extensive documented research. REAL Feral Hog EXPERTS outside MISSOURI Tell a different story.
FACT 1 - DOCUMENTED – To control Wild Hog Population it requires all methods be used Trapping, Snaring, Hunting, Hunting with Dogs, and Shooting at Night using Thermals
Every Department, Biologist and Scientist states that That 70 percent of the feral hog population needs to be removed yearly to keep populations of feral hogs from increasing.
However, a Mark Twain National Forest publication Forest Reflections 2017, page 10 released in June 2018, projects numbers at “an estimated 20,000 – 30,000 feral hogs in the State of Missouri.”
Missouri Department of Conservation 2017 Wild Pigs Removed 6,567 for entire state along Wild Pig Reports in 30 Missouri Counties that means MDC and USDA Aphis ONLY KILLED 32% to 21% in the entire state of Missouri – ALL documented
NO. 1 - DOCUMENTED - MDC is 100% RIGHT and the rest of the STATE’s experts are WRONG!
Texas, Louisiana, Florida, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and South Caronlina Biologist, Scientists and Agency who says they cannot
Can I wipe out a hog population through hunting or trapping?
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."
NO. 2 - DOCUMENTED - MDC is 100% RIGHT and the the United States Fish and Wildlife Service is WRONG!
United States Fish and Wildlife Service: Article -
April 9th, 2018 -
QUOTE: Every hunting tool in his bag to kill pigs: dried corn bait; thermal-imaging scopes; dogs; and traps.
https://www.fws.gov/southeast/articles/hunting-the-wild-hog/
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United States Fish and Wildlife Service - 2018 Feral Hog Hunting Regulations and Information
https://www.fws.gov/uploadedFiles/2018%20Hagerman%20Feral%20Hog%20Hunt.pdf
NO. 3 - DOCUMENTED - MDC is 100% RIGHT and Professor and Extension Wildlife and Fisheries Specialist is WRONG!
Billy Higginbotham
Professor and Extension Wildlife and Fisheries Specialist
Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service
One of the many tools is hunting, that can kill 24% of the population.
https://youtu.be/OtUOaDr01vs
NO. 4 - DOCUMENTED - MDC is 100% RIGHT and Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service are WRONG!
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; 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.
NO. 5 - DOCUMENTED - MDC is 100% RIGHT and USDA APHIS Wildlife Services are WRONG!
Feral Hog Biology, Impacts and
Eradication Techniques
USDA APHIS Wildlife Services New Mexico
November 1, 2010
In the United States, the most common methods of feral hog eradication include box trapping, corral trapping, ground hunting, aerial operations, snaring and hunting with dogs. Each strategy has merit depending on objectives, landscape, local regulations and funding. Each strategy is variable, both in cost and number of hogs that may be removed at any one time by its application.
Hunting
Ground hunting techniques are popular among control and eradication efforts across the United States and foreign countries. There are numerous newly developed tools including advanced optics, truck mounted blinds, forward looking infrared [FLIR] optics, electronic game callers and feeder lights. Baying hounds may also be used to remove feral hogs.
Opponents of ground hunting, particularly with baying hounds, argue that feral hogs will disperse great distances. Maillard and Fournier (1995) ascertained that home range increased three fold during drive hunting seasons, although daily movements DID NOT increase by any appreciable amount.
Conversely, Pohlmeyer and Sodeikat (2003) found that when hunts were limited to less than 3 disturbances within 14 days, BOARS DID NOT LEAVE THEIR HOME RANGE.
Even when hunts exceeded this frequency, boar did not move further than 6 km. Both studies involved baying hounds and structured drive hunts through known boar habitat.
Hounds have been used in seven noted eradication programs from 1973-2006 (McCann and Garcelon 2007). Feral hog removal with hounds was far more effective on solitary animals and small sounders and decreased as numbers increased (Cowled et al. 2005).
The eradication of feral hogs from Santa Cruz Island involved trained dogs working in short arc configurations with trained hunters. When the dogs would bay, the nearest hunter would converge and humanely dispatch the animal (Parkes et al. In press)
NO. 6 - DOCUMENTED - MDC is 100% RIGHT and forgets its own history
This story occurs in Missouri from 1997 to 2008
Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri: A Feral Hog Eradication Success Story
https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1004&context=feralhog
National Conference on Feral Hogs
April 15th, 2008 Hunters went after their new quarry with much enthusiasm and an unknown number was removed by hunters from 1997 – 2004 but likely included SEVERAL HUNDRED HOGS.
A total of 93 hogs was trapped and removed by natural resource managers from 2001 – 2004. No hogs have been documented on FLW since 2004.
A probable key factor in the success of hog removal from FLW was intensive trapping efforts in RESTRICTED AREA THAT HUNTERS COULD NOT ACCESS AND SUBSEQUENTLY BECAME HOG REFUGES.
Hunter-pressured hogs were eliminated in this way. Also, certain Hunting Areas on FLW are only open periodically so HOG WERE ALLOWED TEMPORARY REFUGE CONDITIONS UNTIL AREA WERE OPENED TO HUNTING and then pursued diligently by hunters. We also tracked three feral hogs on FLW with the use of radio telemetry equipment and were able to obtain additional information about their movements and groupings. Telemetry equipment can be utilized as an additional tool to track hunter-pressured feral hogs.
AN EFFECTIVE AND COMPLETE FERAL HOG REMOVAL PROGRAM REQUIRES A COMPREHENSIVE APPROACH.
FLW utilized a holistic approach including disseminating information, encouraging hunting/killing whenever possible, and intensive trapping in refuge areas to accomplish feral hog eradication.
NO. 7 - DOCUMENTED - MDC is 100% RIGHT and CELL PHONE companies are wrong.
Baited traps THAT CAN catch entire sounder at once. BUT NO GUARANTEE with the Missouri Trip wire Method.
TRIP WIRE METHOD vs REMOTE TRIGGER AND CAMERA METHOD.
8,000-dollar traps with Cell Phone Camera and Remote Activated Gate.
But the Missouri reality is much different, most of the remote areas in Wayne, Madison, and Bollinger just to name a few - have no cell phone service, so they MUST use TRIP WIRE METHOD – DON’T HERE THAT IN THE NEWS.
MISSOURI TRIP WIRE METHOD is making TRAP SHY FERAL HOGS.
16 Wild Hog are inside a trap and one of them trips the wire and closes gate. OOPS 32 hogs in sounder that’s only 50% and 8 of those are pregnant females, now become trap shy as the other 16 squeal in distress! 4th Smartest Animal just got free lesson about traps.
NO. 8 - DOCUMENTED - MDC is 100% RIGHT and JAGER PRO founder is wrong.
Just ask JAGER PRO™ founder, Rod Pinkston - Based on their high-volume reputation, they were awarded the largest feral swine removal contract ever paid by the Georgia Environmental Protection Division by successfully removing 624 pigs in 76 events – Which method is the most effective – Trip Wire or Remote Controlled.
NO. 9 - DOCUMENTED - MDC is 100% RIGHT and The North American Wildlife Conservation Model is wrong.
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.
While the word management is used for wildlife and ignores invasive animals, someone has forgotten to tell the feral hog that it is a living, breathing, eating and breeding wild animal which the population needs controlled.
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 over 79,000 acres in Southern Missouri and the Wild Hog population has increased.
NO. 10 - DOCUMENTED MDC is 100% RIGHT - If helicopters are killing the last few hogs why after 5 years the same areas are coming up again, again and again?)
(If helicopters are killing the last few hogs why after 5 years the same areas are coming up again?)
2014 Missouri Study Aerial shooting at $296 per pig, Jump said.
Brad Jump, Springfield, Missouri’s feral swine coordinator for USDA - Wildlife Services.
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.
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,
2013 - The Missouri Department of Conservation will conduct a one-day aerial operation to control feral hogs
in Mingo National Wildlife Refuge. MDC Staff Quote: With traps, you might get 15 hogs. If we can get out with the helicopter and get 40 or 50 in one day, so that's so much more efficient.”
2013 - Aerial hog hunt yielded exactly 1 dead hog at Mingo National Wildlife Refuge.
2015 - MDC HELICOPTER killed 72 feral hogs in the area of Bell Mountain Wilderness.
2015 – MDC flew over parts of Iron and Reynolds counties; the gunner shot 33 wild hogs that day.
2015 - MDC’s five helicopter missions between mid January and late March yielded 138 dead pigs in Missouri.
2015 - MDC helicopter 7 were killed in Vernon County on the first flight of the season,
2015 - MDC helicopter in Hickory County killed 17 pigs
2015 - MDC helicopter kills 9 during a flight over Wayne and Butler counties.
2016 - Five helicopter flights last year killed 225 feral hogs in different parts of the state.
2017 - MDC helicopter gunner fails to kill ANY feral hogs at Current River site
2018 - USDA APHIS Killed 103 hogs in 5 days of flying at Bell Mountain Wilderness and Rock Pile Wilderness - December 21st, 2018 – AFTER FLIGHT
FERAL SOW KILLED by “PUBLIC HUNTER” on BELL MOUNTAIN and appeared to have Milk
2019 - February 11-15, 2019 for invasive feral hog control operations. They killed 127 hogs and I have video proof the day after and days after that multiple dozens of hogs and huge hogs’ still on Mingo.
NO. 11 - DOCUMENTED - MDC is 100% RIGHT - Why are the no hunting areas still have high population of wild hogs, year after, year?)
If trapping is the ONLY method successful and trapping entire sounders. Then all these areas would be Wild Hog Free since they have had no hunting and are under complete control of Interagency Feral Hog Eradication.
JOHNSON SHUT INNS STATE PARK,
FORT LENOARD WOOD,
BIG SPRING NATIONAL PARK,
CURRENT RIVER NATIONAL SCENIC RIVERWAY,
SAM A. BAKER STATE PARK,
DUCK CREEK WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT AREA,
WAPPAPPELLO LAKE
PEAK’S RANCH – Feral Hogs still exist – Has to be the most watched Conservation Area in Missouri since Elk have been introduced in 2011 Missouri. MINGO NATIOAL WILDLIFE REFUGE
NO. 12 - DOCUMENTED - MDC is 100% RIGHT and Simple math is wrong.
Currently there are 58 government trappers for 2019, but only had 28 Feral Hog Trappers in Missouri for 79,434 acres of public land that means each government trapper are coving 2,836 acres of ground which requires a STATE to spend $2,495,915 dollars to catch 9,300 hogs for 2008, that is $266.00 per hog killed and $89,139.82 per government trapper “Trapper, truck, supplies, etc. etc”
That does not include Private acreage!!!!
(1 1/2 months of no trapping on any public land in Southern Missouri during Turkey Season)
(4 months of no trapping on any public land in Southern Missouri during Deer Season).
Real Simple – Mark Twain has approx. 1,500,000 acres in the state. To trap 1,500 acres a piece on Mark Twain alone will require 1,000 Government Trappers at an estimated cost of what the state already spends for 2018 will be $89,139,821 that’s 89 Million Dollars to sustain trapper, equipment to cover 1.5 Million acres.
If each trapper gets one fancy drop trap and electronics for each. That’s 1000 x $8,000 each for trap. That is 8 Million in traps alone.
REALLY that’s all fantasy it will be more like 100 trappers for the entire state of Missouri.
NO. 13 - DOCUMENTED - MDC is 100% RIGHT and I am 100% Wrong!!!!!
PARTNERSHIP WITH PRIVATE LANDOWNER IN MISSOURI FOR FERAL HOG ERADICATION ADJACENT TO MISSOURI DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION GROUND and example of what landowners will experiences next to Mark Twain National Forest.
262 Days Report - Don't Shoot - Told by multiple times MDC employees only hunt part of my property during deer season to trap, and confirmed later in turkey season that mean only half 40 acres. Then told me to stop Reporting in April. Still did nothing on Public Land it was coming from. November 26th Federal Trapper Showed Up
34 days of USDA Aphis Hog Trapper - Gave Up Gave up Last Half of Bow Season first time in 30 plus years and gave up half of trapping allow hog trapper full access with no interference by me or others. February 18th - Built my own trap
95 days 2 daylight photo of hogs, 1 in 262 days May 15th Hunted 8:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m.
May 18th Hunted 8:00 p.m. to 1:00 a.m. - Killed 215 lb. Wild Hog
May 23rd Hunted 8:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. - Killed 200 lb. Wild Hog
Hunting with Thermals, was the first hog two hogs I have ever seen in person while hunting! ALLEN MORRIS
JACKSON, MISSOURI
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Guess we are not in AMERICA any more ToTo!!!
Did you know that ONLY Jefferson City can decided if you are a CREDIBLE OUTDOOR ORGANIZATION – HMMM – Belong to a lot over the years never knew I need approval of what organization I believe in.
Guess we are not in AMERICA any more ToTo!!!
WE MADE GREAT PROGRESS – REALLY so you gone from 5 trappers to 58 trappers because you made great progress and you banned the PEOPLE OF MISSOURI from killing hogs on 79,000 acres 3 years ago, now you need another 1.5 Million to FINISH THE JOB!!!!
TO THE PEOPLE OF MISSOURI
From one concerned Landowner / Hunter/ Conservationist and Citizen that deeply cares about Missouri’s outdoor heritage to another,SOMEONE who;s land actually sits on the front lines of the Wild Hog problem created since the ban in 2016 and actually killed hogs in Missouri in 2019 because of the population expansion - I need your help.
I am or have been a proud to be a member of the following organizations without the approval from Jefferson City: Buckmasters, Bootheel Boss Gobblers - National Wild Turkey Federation, Missouri Deer Hunter's Club, Southeast Missouri Beagle Club, Missouri Outdoor Communicators, Missouri Waterfowl Association, Whitetails Unlimited, United Sportsmen of America, Quality Deer Management Association (Life Member)(Deer Steward 1, 2 and 3), Mater Wildlifer U.S. Sportsmen's Alliance, Ducks Unlimited, Delta Waterfowl, Safari Club International, Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, Quail Forever, National Rifle Association, Professional Outdoor Media Association, National Rifle Association, Outdoor Writers Association of America.
I am asking you and your members to step up and join me to make your voice be heard. Feral Hogs in Missouri are Is the Wild Hog a living, breathing, breeding, eating wild animal and destructive wild animal.
That if the state would remember that - The North American Wildlife Conservation Model that HUNTING is the MOST EFFECTIVE TOOL to assure species exist in balance with their habitat.
Exactly how writing down on paper that a Wild Hog is an invasive animal does it change anything about using hunting as a tool? Someone forgot to tell the Wild hog!!!!!
Feral hog ERADICATION is a FAIRY TALE TOLD to every LOBBY GROUP in the state, government or meeting by the Missouri Department of Conservation, and the USDA/APHIS (Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service). TAXPAYER-FUNDED state and federal efforts have only made the PROBLEM WORSE!
The U.S Department of Agriculture's Forest Service is asking for public comment on a proposal to prohibit the hunting of feral swine on the Mark Twain National Forest. Please show your support of this proposal in one of the following ways before the 60-day comment period ends on July 23.
Take Action:
• Email comments to: SM.FS.MTFeralSwine@usda.gov.
• Mail comments to Forest Supervisor; ATTN: Feral Swine Comment; Mark Twain National Forest; 401 Fairgrounds Road; Rolla, MO 65401.
• Attend one of the two public open houses on June 18th from 6-8 p.m. in Rolla (Signature Event Center), or June 20th in Fredericktown (Black River Electric Cooperative).
We know LOBBY, GOVERNMENT agencies groups that are against the PEOPLE OF MISSOURI, and they will be also be at these meetings. Please unite so that we can continue our efforts to CONTROL feral hogs’ population to back before HUNTING BAN in 2016 which INCREASED HAS INCREASED THE POPULATION and EXAPANED IT’S RANGE in this conservation rich state.
Please share this information with every one of your members and urge them to comment. More information can be found here: https://www.fs.usda.gov/detail/mtnf/news-events/…
Since deception and biased agenda driven “science” is being used by Missouri Agencies, Lobbyist in Jefferson City and Media is so ignorant about the outdoors, they have no clue on what questions to ask. Eradication is a LIE.
Biologist, Scientists and Agency outside of Missouri!!!!! 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."
