MISSOURI WILD HOG CRISIS - 2019 - Saga Continues!
January 16th, 2019
January 25th, 2019
MORE THAN 9,300 FERAL HOGS ELIMINATED FROM MISSOURI IN 2018
https://mdc.mo.gov/newsroom/more-9300-feral-hogs-eliminated-missouri-2018?fbclid=IwAR1GR6y9pE0qC-fVCcE6O7uGDli4BQx90j-P2sYz3cXRPwUYDDUNZ1Xjk1o
!!!!!SO WHAT!!!!!
MDC killed 9,300 – My Reply to that is SO WHAT!
I am very glad that you killed wild hogs and that is a GREAT thing. But if it’s only 20% you are spitting in the wind.
I ask what the population is the answer is MDC DOES NOT KNOW When killing hogs under the 70% mark, which every agency. Biologist and expert says has to be done, including the MDC!
The No. 1 Conservation Department in the National that can Estimate 1.3 Million Deer, 300,000 to 400,000 Wild Turkeys can set limits on every species of Wildlife in Missouri can't figure out what the wild hog population is.
Interns are not walking around Missouri counting Wild Turkey by starting at 1, 2, 3 they are extrapolating the numbers.
By not knowing the goal that has to be reached every statement MDC has made about eradication, making progress, or closing in on the Feral Hog is Unquantifiable, dishonest and unprovable.
U.S. Forest Service - Mark Twain National Forest best educated guess that last year the Wild Hog Population was 30,000 to 40,000 in state of Missouri and if 9,300 hogs killed that is 31% to 23% in 2018.
BUT NOT ONE SINGLE PERSON IN THE STATE OF MISSOURI CAN SAY IF THIS IS CORRECT OR NOT, BECAUSE. YOU DON'T KNOW!!!! THAT IS 69% TO 77% SHORT OF A KNOWN GOAL.
January 25th, 2019
Went out to see few landowners with Wild Hog problems today one with his own trap and one with MDC doing the trapping.
Boots on the ground is great education. The Missouri Wild Hog Crisis is so bad in this area, stop planting food plots because hogs tear them up and is a waste of time and from the time I entered the gate to the time we stepped back into the truck. Wild Hog Sign everywhere including in the Middle of the gravel road.
Well got to see a private landowners doing his own research, building his own trap. Everything I have read in my interviews, text, email, pm, videos and phone conversations he is doing everything recommended to build the best quality trap. Along with shooting hogs with guns and bows across his property. His biggest was over 300 lbs.
January 25th, 2019
What a Shame - MDC Trap on private landowner. Not one hog trapped and that is a good thing with the issues the trap has.
Look at the issue - Don't believe me Google it take 5 seconds to see all the problems. This is completely opposite of what I saw with the private landowner doing it his self.
1. No food to little food - Feeder not working.
2. Post are 8 feet O.C. even USDA APHIS Trappers recommend 4 feet O.C.
3. Recommend hogs will center attention on door area. post is over 5' away also.
4. Fencing is only wired twice to post majority of post.
5. Fencing splice was wire three times at least but the fencing it self only wire together top and bottom.
Less 1/2 mile down the road was another USDA APHIS drop trap but was removed, had not caught anything. Do the departments not talk with each other?
PRIVATE LANDOWNER WILD HOG TRAPS
have looked all over the Missouri Department of Conservation Website and the material they handed out at demo I attended. They provide nothing to show landowners how to build their own traps.
MDC in states that they will help - Landowners can seek help from MDC and USDA such as technical advice, on-site visits, loaning equipment and training.
Before the USDA gave up trying to trap the wild hog, he did give me advice on post spacing and location.
These are the only resources Missouri Department of Conservation provides online, which has nothing to help landowners.
https://mdc.mo.gov/wildlife/nuisance-problem-species/invasive-species/feral-hogs-missouri
https://mdc.mo.gov/sites/default/files/downloads/FeralHogs.pdf
https://mdc.mo.gov/sites/default/files/downloads/FeralHogQA.pdf
https://nature.mdc.mo.gov/discover-nature/field-guide/feral-hog
https://s1.sos.mo.gov/cmsimages/adrules/csr/current/3csr/3c10-9.pdf
University of Missouri Extension
https://extension2.missouri.edu/g9457
Since no little to nothing about Wild Hogs I had to go to other states and other sources for the information, especially since I don’t know what to ask.
Scouting, Pre-Baiting, Baiting, and Game Cameras just some of the things to consider, then you must decide on.
Type of Panel & Overlapping
Length of T-Post, Spacing and Location
Type of Door
Attaching Panels to Each Other
Attaching T- Post to Panels
Attaching door to T-Post & Panels
Bottom of Gate Considerations
Top of Trap Considerations
Type of Trigger
Resources:
Texas A&M University System
http://feralhogs.tamu.edu/files/2010/05/CorralTraps.pdf
Mississippi State University Extension Service
http://wildpiginfo.msstate.edu/types-traps-feral-pigs.html
Videos - Selecting Panels for Wild Pig Traps
University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture Cooperative Extension Service Arkansas Forest Resources Center
https://www.uaex.edu/publications/pdf/MP537.pdf
JAGER PRO™ Hog Trapping (6)- Panel Selection - YouTube
https://youtu.be/Tvyq4RM3IpQ
Alabama Cooperative Extension System
https://youtu.be/_t103K7lVU8
TAMU Wildlife and Fisheries Extension
https://youtu.be/xu3Irm_1ivc
Selecting Doors
ACES - Fresh from the Field
https://youtu.be/g6gYl5pnU3w
Hog Trapping | (2) Hog Trap & Door Selection | JAGER PRO™
https://youtu.be/Wfdii32THeE
Top of Traps
Goin Fencing
https://youtu.be/haFsKVuqn9w
Or you can go with different companies traps if you have the money to do so.
Jager Pro, Bull Creek, Boar Buster and I am sure more exist.
The Tsunami of Wild Hogs is coming to Missouri and the state agency will not be able to handle the numbers of Wild Hogs on the landscape. It’s no longer if you get Wild Hogs but when. You’re going to have to decide on what to do!
December 12, 2019
WE at Missouri Feral Hogs would like to THANK YOU for sharing this with the REST OF MISSOURIANS:
Missourian please share this with your landowners they are going to need it.
We believe every method to control hog population. I hope and the landowner hopes it helps just one person and WE have made a difference.
These plans where developed in 2014 by the USDA and MDC.
But you won't find them on MDC website for landowners to use.
Anything dealing with Wild Hog in Missouri is like a national secret from who, when, where, and how.
P.S. - It is a interesting note this is same design or very close as a Jager Pro Gate. I should know I have one.
Also the biggest note: Remember NO GUARANTEE of whole sounder being caught when Animal Activated Triggers are used. Could be 1,2,3,4, 10 or 20 or a deer. while the rest of the sounder watches on the outside and become trap shy hog. That is why trap, shoot, dog, thermals, arrow, knife whatever it takes is required
January 23, 2020
THE MISSOURI DROP TRAP - 2015 and then in 2016 the Feral Hog Missouri Drop Trap – A complete set of CAD engineered drawings is available for distribution to other agencies and partners.
USDA APHIS Chief: JULY 30, 2019 on video: WE BUILT A NEW TRAP THAT IS 90% TO 100% effective -
This is the trap. I guess Missouri Landowners are NOT consider partners. – January 23, 2020 – Talking about Missouri Landowners - MDC QUOTE: “We absolutely must work together”
I put in a Freedom of Information Act Request – January 6, 2020 - Would like PDF file of those CAD engineered drawings that have been distributed.
By the way I have lost count now on how many FOIA I have now filled out, dealing the MOST TOP SECRET CLASSIFIED MATERIEL KNOW TO MANKIND – THE MISSOURI WILD HOG!!!!
Never published Online or a Magazine, by the Missouri Department of Conservation, Lobbyist, and not one member of the Missouri Feral Hog Task Force for Missouri Landowners to use.
Never published by the USDA Aphis for the Public or Missouri landowners to use.
Paid for by Missouri Taxpayers
If this Missouri Drop Trap is so effective, and landowners are so important to work with –
WHY HAS THE PLANS BEEN KEPT FROM MISSOURI PUBLIC AND MISSOURI LANDOWNERS FOR 4 OR 5 YEARS?
PEOPLE OF MISSOURI – HOPE IT HELPS ONE LANDOWNER – Trapping is a tool, not a solution – We Believe in all methods to control the population of Missouri Wild Hogs – Eradication is a lie!
January 27th, 2019
Video of Wild Hog - Welcome to Clearwater Lake - Missouri - "Report Don't Shoot, Drown or Fish for Wild Hogs. Missouri where the Wild Hog Crisis is REAL.
The World is Upside down when, Europe understands THE NORTH AMERICAN WILDLIFE CONSERVATION MODEL, better than our own Conservation Department!!!!!!
Wildlife is managed under the principles of the The North American Wildlife Conservation Model. The Model should not be exclusive to wildlife or game species but invasive also.
Regulated hunting is the foundation of the North American Model of Wildlife Conservation. It was led by prominent HUNTERS, to stop over-exploitation of wildlife by market hunters and the desire to have wildlife accessible to all people.
Simple way to look at it - That is why we have the Department of Conservation to set limits on the amount to wildlife that can be taken, so wildlife will be here in the future.
The early days of North American wildlife management were spent stopping declines of those species the human population found useful in some way and encouraging population growth with limited seasons, male-only hunting, daily bag limits and other RESTRICTIONS.
As successful law enforcement, habitat preservation and wildlife management programs grew, so did most wildlife populations.
Early biologists saw this effect of harvest as evidence that game populations could be managed as a renewable natural resource where the population replaces the portion REMOVED by HUNTERS.
In cases where population REDUCTION is the management goal, managers must implement FEMALE harvest beyond the level at which the population can replace itself in the short-term.
POPULATION REDUCTIONS or maintenance at appropriate levels are a clear case of HUNTERS acting as partners in wildlife management. Conflicts with man in the form of vehicle collisions, nuisance wildlife, livestock depredation, predation on crops and risks to human safety may result in a goal to manage at a ‘Social Carrying Capacity’ lower than the biological limit of the habitat
For example, the number of deer-vehicle collisions is estimated to exceed 1.5 million every year on U.S. roadways. This tremendous loss of life and property, illustrates the importance of effectively managing wildlife abundance to appropriate levels by the HELP from HUNTERS.
Recent international symposia have reaffirmed that regulated HUNTING is the MOST EFFECTIVE TOOL to assure species exist in balance with their habitat.
The role of hunting - Over-abundant big game populations can alter the habitat to the detriment of many other species. The same can be said for Wild Hogs
This shows the IMPORTANCE OF HUNTING IN CONTROLLING WILDLIFE POPULATIONS. – The same can be said for Wild Hogs.
In some areas, deer overpopulation increases because LANDOWNER RESTRICT HUNTING.
The same can be said for Wild Hogs in Missouri – Over-abundance of Wild Hog Population can alter the habitat to the detriment of many other native species. On Missouri Department of Conservation Land the Wild Hog overpopulation increase because the AGENCY RESTRICT HUNTING.
Europe understands role of Hunters in Wild Hog Control.
HUNTING SERVES THE ENVIRONMENT BY CONTROLLING OVERPOPULATION, STUDY SHOWS
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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