Conservation and Natural Resources Committee
Missouri House of Representatives
Testifying in Jefferson City - Monday - February 18th, 2019 - 6:00 p.m.
HB 263 allows for human consumption
HB 655 defines landowner’s Agent which will allow for a landowner to give permission to someone to help kill feral hogs on his place at night with artificial light
February 18th, 2019
After failure from MDC and USDA APHIS and STILL no trapping on the Castor River Conservation Area next to me. Coming from the NWTF convention the night before. I was up at 6:00 a.m. to meet Hog Cutters Trapping Company to help me fight the large groups of hogs on Castor River Conservation Area the Wild Hog Refuge for Bollinger County.
Got home at 1:30 am from Last nights hearing in Conservation & Natural Resource Committee, I shared my personal testimonial & 13 page informational about the Missouri Wild Hog Crisis.
Since MDC Staff used my name in his presentation, I highly recommend he find out the facts and don't tell half truths while, I am in room. Anyway I was able to give rebutal his remarks and got the last word.
Might be a big waste of 12 hours of my life but gave Maximum effort.
All the MDC presentation shows outdated and incomplete map, a complete denial that hogs are spreading on their own. The only reason for for hogs across landscape is individuals moving is their only argument.
I guess those people cant drive across Missouri river. Lol Even though only 12 individuals in 10 years have been ticketed and prosecuted also. But the no. 1 line of the night
The Few of the Committee Members talked to me after the meeting was over - Apparently the Missouri House of Representatives are not aware of this fact: NOTE: Also, during the Federal Government Shutdown – At least two USDA APHIS Trappers continued to work, because they are cooperatively funded through the MDC.
FERAL HOGS ARE NOT MDC PROBLEM THEY ARE A MISSOURI PROBLEM
Quote: Deputy Director of the Missouri Department of Conservation.
Feral Hogs are not a MDC problem they are a Missouri problem.
That explains it all. MDC has some of most restrictive regulations to protect native wildlife and habitat, while at the same time those methods also are used to KILL wild hogs, so in turn they are actually helping destroy the native habitat and wildlife by not accepting that fact at the end if the day it wild animal and it is their problem.
Would like to thank the committee for the vast amount of questions and general thirst for information.
February 2019
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.
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
Have you ever heard any of this in the MEDIA or by the MDC?
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.
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/
Feral swine modified behaviors to avoid detection by helicopters
From 2009 to 2013, approximately 1079 feral swine were trapped. Of those, we harnessed 31 (15 males and 16 females).
We collected 18,132 feral swine GPS fixes from harnesses in which no removal activities were applied and 20,265 GPS fixes from harnesses on feral swine that experienced removal activities.
Removal activities were applied to 8 feral swine, and 13 feral swine received no removal activities.
When wild boar was harassed by drive hunts; 40 % of boar groups moved away from their core areas and relocated up to 6 km, although these wild boars did return after 4–6 weeks in Missouri.
Found that feral swine core and home range sizes did not differ before and after helicopter gunning in Texas; however, movement rates increased during the helicopter gunning phase.
Similarly, population-wide culling activities, including trapping, controlled shooting, drive shooting, and aerial gunning that incorporated a centralized bait station, had no effect on size of areas used by feral swine.
Another study from Australia noted that feral swine modified behaviors to avoid detection by helicopters during helicopter shooting exercises
https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2841&context=icwdm_usdanwrc
MOVEMENTS OF WILD PIGS - 2.7 MILES TO 5.4 MILES PER DAY
Movements - California
Sedentary within their home range
Home range typically 3-5 square miles, up to 20 square miles
Sex, age, habitat, food availability, and temperature
Movement Patterns Boars traveled 4.2 Miles to 5.4 Miles per a day
Sounders moved 2.7 miles to 3.6 miles per a day
http://www.usaha.org/upload/Committee/Brucellosis/2013_WildPigProject_Holmstrom.pdf
20,000 - Man Hours and 2 1/2 Million
20,000 - Man Hours and 2 1/2 Million to kill 16% of the Wild Hog Population in Missouri for 2017.
The Missouri House Budget Committee Hearing Wednesday, February 14th, 2018.
It takes 70% killed yearly to keep population in check.
Conservation and Natural Resources Committee
Missouri House of Representatives
just got Duped by the Deputy Director on the Missouri Department of Conservation.
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?
BILL SIGNED BY GOVERNOR PARSON - JUNE, 6TH, 2019
Going to steal a line:
The Media was born tired and raised lazy.
The required clarification was the law's reference to the “landowner’s agent” who is also allowed to kill hogs on a property. The term was being interpreted in different ways by different agencies and property owners, which was causing issues.
No. 1 - IT WAS ONLY ONE AGENCY - MISSOURI DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION!!!
No. 2 - Why does the media ask the Deputy Director on the far right side of photo. This question.
TOTAL ERADICATION IS THE GOAL - why do you care who the landowners allows to kill hogs on his private property and how.
No. 3 - WHAT ISSUES - Give you hint MEDIA individuals where about to get game violations tickets for shooting hogs on private landowners property they had permission to be on with thermals and night vision scopes.
FYI - NO.1 rule on Feral Hog Population Control - You must own the night.
