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MISSOURI FERAL HOG TASK FORCE - BROKEN SYSTEM

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Since Missouri is intent on lying, telling half truths and putting out fake news to the general public. Let the NO. 1 Agriculture University in the World. Tell you the TRUTH about feral hogs. Video you will NEVER EVER SEE IN MISSOURI. LISTEN close to the end.

Follow the rivers and creeks in Missouri you find the highest density of hogs. Of course Missouri won't tell you this and notice the area they brag about in Elimnation Area 1 has the least of amount of rivers and creeks. https://www.floatmissouri.com/plan/missouri-rivers/

STOP REPORTING - DON'T SHOOT

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April 20th, 2019

Press Release April 20th, 2019
Missouri Landowners are seeing less damage by Feral Hogs
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​Question:
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Then why did that add 20 more trappers this year and now have 58 trappers?

Then why did MDC spending go upto $1.865 million annually? A Historical Benchmark in Missouri History!!!

Someone in Jefferson City might want to let the Wild Hogs know that they are doing less damage. April 17th, 2019

Welcome to Missouri
Conservation Success Story
I have more Wild Hog Photos than I do Turkey Photos.

April 22nd, 2019

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I guess Austin and Houston Texas is smaller than Cape Girardeau, Mo. As video show hogs in Subdivisions in Austin.

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Missouri Feral Hog Coordinator Quote "Much of Cape Girardeau is too urbanized for hogs" ROFLMAO Got to love the Missouri Feral Hog Task Force.

https://www.wideopenspaces.com/west-texas-neighborhood-has-a-major-hog-problem/

Missouri Feral Hog Task Force
Have become part of the problem.
April 12th, 2019

APRIL COMMISSION MEETING, APRIL 12 AT 8:30 AM

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Missouri Feral Hogs starts at 2:05:50

Missouri Department of Conservation Alan Leary - Certified Wildlife Biologist Feral Hog Coordinator - 2:08:40 - QUOTE " We partner with 100's of private landowners in the state.

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DOES THIS SOUND LIKE A PARTNERSHIP WITH PRIVATE LANDOWNER?

Example of Report - Don't Shoot - Results

PHONE call from Missouri Department of Conservation - Feral Hog Strike Team Leader about my Feral Hog Reports from December 21st, 2018 to April 1st, 2018.
*He asked if I was going to Turkey Hunt?
Yes
*Then will have to wait till turkey season is over because of the bait in trap and we be glad to come out and trap.
*Maybe you could NOT hunt part of your land, you have 80 acres correct?
Yes
*Then if you restrict your hunting to 40 acres would could still trap for your hogs because of bait. But we still must get approval from your Conservation Agent.
I have thousands of photos of them coming off of Castor River Conservation Area.
*We still must wait for Turkey Season to be over, we don’t want to restrict the public from Turkey hunting on Public land.
I reported this back in September, October and November also.
*Yes, I now remember.
*Just like Deer season we must wait till season over.
*Let us know if you kill both your Turkeys then we can start trapping. We trapped some north of you this year.
Thanks for the call.
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REALLY THIS IS THE BEST YOU CAN DO?
(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)

(Wild Hog Refuge system in Missouri is working great to increase the population not so much on elimination) 
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MISSOURI MDC FERAL HOG MAP IS SERIOUSLY WRONG!

MDC map in Video 2:08:59.

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Missouri Citizens Map - In less than a Week in December of 2018 - the People of Missouri have spoken with 38 counties reporting Feral Hog Problems. Areas in Yellow are photos and Light Blue is Multiple Reports. 

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​Multiple reports in 2019 continue to role in of Wild Hogs in Washington, Dunklin, Scott, Jasper, Dade, Henry, Benton, St. Clair, Ste. Genevieve, Pemiscot, Cedar, Douglas, Callaway and Hickory Counties also, just don't have photos. 

Go to Missouri Wild Hog Crisis page to see links to counties with photos.

USDA APHIS reports 45 counties in Missouri with Feral Hogs.

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Elimitation Area 1 - Southwest Missouri - 2:11:08 

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​November 2018 - Missouri Department of Transportation took care of finding them, and put out warning for drivers - Guess too small to find!!!!

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2:12:57 The spread of feral hogs in Missouri was intentional releases for hunting by hunters and landowners.

In Washington D.C. it would be a Russian Collusion, in Jefferson City, Missouri it would be Russian Wild Hog Collusion. 

Question's:

Then is possible an agency employees are intentional releasing hogs to influence policy on Mark Twain National Forest?

Everyone's knows MDC is trying to influence policy on Mark Twain National Forest show me the people of Missouri proof individuals are release them?


If this MDC theory is correct, then it is the same theory that would apply to a agency employees. Correct??
Why would anyone work their self out of a job?

Why is statement any less true than MDC statement? What make this statement less true because it comes from individuals in Missouri and not the Government?

Show the people of Missouri reporting of every feral hog trapped and killed?

Please name the Agency that is in charge and police the Feral Hog Task Force Trappers?

MDC Quote 
​“They’re definitely not migrating,” he said. 

“They’re either escapees or purposely released.”
Statements like that are Unquantifiable, dishonest and unprovable, they might want to talk to the rest of the scientific community. 
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5 Years from NOW
MISSOURI WILD HOG CRISIS is REAL!!!!!
What will Missouri Look like – The Data from the Southeast Cooperative Wildlife Disease Study, United States Geological Survey shows potential map of FERAL HOGS in Missouri.

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http://wildpiginfo.msstate.edu/booklet.pdf

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 6.5 km/yr to 12.6 km/yr. (4 miles/year to 7.8 miles/year) If this trend persists, invasive wild pigs are predicted to reach most U.S. counties in 30-50 years, but likely faster if a southward expansion from Canada continues.

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)

https://blogs.plos.org/ecology/2017/02/01/invasive-wild-pigs-leave-a-swath-of-destruction-across-u-s-and-they-keep-spreading/
​ The average rate of northward expansion increased from 6·5 to 12·6 km per year, suggesting most counties in the continental USA could be inhabited within the next 3–5 decades. The spread of IWPs was primarily associated with expansion into areas with similar environmental characteristics as their previous range, with the exception of spreading into colder regions.
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https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1365-2664.12866 Have you ever heard any of this in the MEDIA or by the MDC? Missouri has the greatest average movement rates
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The average home range size was greatest in Missouri.
We analyzed GPS data from individual pigs in studies across six states including Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Missouri, South Carolina, and Texas.

We obtained over 400,000 GPS locations of wild pigs from 13 different studies spanning six states in southern U.S.A., and quantified movement rates and home range size.

Missouri and Texas had the greatest average movement rates.

The average home range size was greatest in Missouri.

Management techniques like (hunting, trapping, chasing with dogs, helicopters type of harassment)
Overall average home range sizes

With Management (2.9 square miles to 6 square miles) or (1,856 acres to 3,840 acres)
Without ANY management (2.3 square miles 4.3 square miles) (1,472 acres to 2,752 acres)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5471724/

​58 Staff trapping hogs if remember correctly between all agencies.

3,280 Wild Hogs killed in first quarter 2019.

WILD HOG ELIMINATION IN MISSOURI?

​WHAT YEAR will the Elimination take place in Missouri. 2017 Mark Twain National Forest - Forest Report has up to 30,000 Wild Hogs in Missouri but MDC only killed 6,300 that is only 21 percent. Reproduction rate of 166% that means 19,000 piglets born in 2017.

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Extrapolation of Mark Twain National Forest and MDC numbers from
​2017 and 2018. 
"Only problem Estimated 5,126 to 12,493 piglets born in first quarter of 2019"

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2018 it cost the Missouri Taxpayers $266.00 per Wild Hog under the MDC Policy that restricts methods to landowners and hunters in Missouri.

February of 2019 - MDC quote that it only cost 32 to 35 dollar to kill each of the 127 wild hogs at Mingo -

​You got to love that GOVERNMENT MATH - COST went from $296 dollars in 2014 and 5 years later $35 dollars. I guess Helicopter are the most efficient method not trapping. I guess depends on the FAKE NEWS they put out for that day or hour.

WOW I guess everything else has gone down in price why is the Wild Hog Budget More this year? LOL 

​A 2014 Missouri study calculated trapping costs at $264 per pig and aerial shooting at $296 per pig, Jump said.  Brad Jump, Springfield, Missouri’s feral swine coordinator for USDA - Wildlife Services.

2:18:37 - FAKE NEWS TO THE CONSERVATION COMMISSION, THE SAME LIE TOLD TOO.....

​Missouri Citizens, Missouri Media and Conservation and Natural Resources Committee in the
​Missouri House of Representatives just got DUPED into reading, publishing or being told in an Committee Meeting by the Deputy Director of the MDC an untrue story and a press release to the Media and public.

Will the MEDIA and MDC Apologize to the Private Landowner and Hunter.

Would you like to be used as a hunter or private landowner by a Missouri government agency to promote untrue story?

Everyone's knows MDC is trying to influence policy on Mark Twain National Forest. LET ME BE CLEAR!!
They will stop at nothing influence policy on Mark Twain National Forest. 

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2:27:25 - MDC Alan Leary - USDA FARM BILL MONEY -
"We do not want money going to the private landowners"

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Missouri is 97 percent private land, but 100% of the funds are going to the Missouri Department of Conservation.

Why is the USDA Farm Bill not providing 97 percent of the landowners with funds to control the Wild Hog population?

Instead you providing funds and support to landowner that only control 7 percent of the land in Missouri. Which is the Missouri Department of Conservation.

Missouri Department of Conservation has a BROKEN SYSTEM and is prohibiting methods that are used in majority of the other states with Wild Hog Problem and are actually causing a increase to the Wild Hog Population.

EXAMPLE 1 - Feral Hog Strike Team Leader CALLED ME ABOUT MY Feral Hog Reports from December 21st, 2018 to April 1st, 2018.
*He asked if I was going to Turkey Hunt?
Yes
*Then will have to wait till turkey season is over because of the bait in trap and we be glad to come out and trap.
*Maybe you could NOT hunt part of your land, you have 80 acres correct?
Yes
*Then if you restrict your hunting to 40 acres would could still trap for your hogs because of bait. But we still must get approval from your Conservation Agent.

Example 2 - I have thousands of photos of them coming off Castor River Conservation Area.
*We still must wait for Turkey Season to be over, we don’t want to restrict the public from Turkey hunting on Public land.

Example 3 - I reported this back in September, October and November also.
*Yes, I now remember.
*Just like Deer season we must wait till season over.

Example 4 – From January 15th, 2019 to April 5th, 2019 – No trapping occurred on Castor River Conservation Area where the wild hogs are coming onto my property.

Example 5 – I have had to buy my own trapping supplies, electronics, guns and thermal scopes with no help from the State or USDA.

LET ME BE CLEAR - THIS IS A MONEY GRAB!

How does Missouri Support Landowners in the fight against Feral Hogs vs Texas.

They would rather use Taxpayer money to run Advertisement 

Meanwhile - Education, Control Techniques, Laws and Regulations, Trapping Demos taught in Texas.

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Missouri can officially FIRE the Missouri Feral Hog Task Force Leadership and the Media Department because this 1 hour 17 min video does more to help landowner than 20 years of the Missouri Feral Hog Task Force.

​Put more Pork on your Fork!" - Gordon Ramsay Georgia Wild Hog, shot, dressed, and cooked in the woods - HMMM must have died from all the disease feral hogs have right after show.

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