MINGO WILDLIFE REFUGE
THE MISSOURI WILD HOG NURSERY OF SOUTHEAST MISSOURI
Over 7 years of Trapping & Helicopters killing hogs.
August 9th, 2019
Mingo Neighboring Landowner Quote:
"They are trying to gain ground on this problem, which isn't going well"
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.
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
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.”
Missouri National Model of Feral Hog Eradication
August 8th, 2019
Hogs Run behind USDA Trapper Truck at Mingo
What does the Missouri Feral Hog Task Force trapping look like on Mingo Wildlife Refuge and the rest of Missouri? That's one in the truck with brake lights.
7 years of trapping and Helicopters in complete control of agency.
Can't wait till they protect hogs on 1.5 million acres. Missouri deserves what it's going to get.
USDA trapper cost to Missouri Taxpayer $70,000.00 per year.
Without ANY performance standard required.
USDA trapper in Missouri is immune to any government shutdown, because they are funded by the Missouri Department of Conservation
Mingo Wildlife Refuge has intensively trapped hogs for over 7 years now, but huge population still exist - If trapping the ONLY solution then why are they also killing them by Helicopters. Reports from Mingo Wildlife Refuge Bow Hunters is that once a great place to deer hunt it has really gone down and seeing a Wild Hog is common place.
Missouri National Model of Feral Hog Eradication
August 8th, 2019
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Thought Missouri didn't do management for Feral Hogs. Better change your signs.
You just can't make this stuff up.
Public interference with hog trapping. Closing public land to hikers and birds and bees people until further notice.
Need to close all public land in Missouri and fence it in. Then they could use those 90 to 100% effective traps.
Just keeps getting better. 7 years of complete control still can't Eradication hogs on Mingo using traps and Helicopters.
Won't see that on KFVS-12 and award winning broadcast company. Maybe they get Helicopter ride next time.
But hey let's protect hogs on 1.5 million more acres from hunters. Can't wait.
TRAPPING THE ONLY METHOD?
If trapping is the ONLY method successful. Then all these areas would be Wild Hog Free since they have had limited to no hunting for longer than the ban in 2016 if I am not mistaken.
2008 plan order by Governor to Eridicate Feral Hogs.
MDC Quote - WE been trapping for 25 years!
NO HUNTING for feral hogs since 2016.
Does Missouri have LESS or MORE Feral Hogs since 2016?
Not ONE area controlled by agencies has eliminated FERAL HOGS in Missouri -
Johnson Shut Inns State Park,
Fort Lenoard Wood,
Big Spring National Park,
Current River National Scenic River way,
Sam A. Baker State Park,
Duck Creek Wildlife Management Area,
Mingo Wildlife Refuge,
Wappappello Lake,
Peck’s Ranch,
Taum Sauk State Park,
Corp Ground,
LAD Foundation Ground, etc., etc., etc.!
Deputy Director of Missouri Department of Conservation Speaking:
MISSOURI IS NATIONAL MODEL FOR HOG ERIDICATION
Peck's Ranch – Feral Hogs still exist – Has to be the most watched Conservation Area in Missouri since Elk have been introduced in 2011 Missouri. January 1st, 2019
"Pictures are from Peck Ranch CA the Elk collar was in hog rooting"
July 31st, 2019 - USDA APHIS speaking:
WE BUILT A NEW TRAP THAT IS 90% TO 100% Efficient -
HOLY HOG!!!! CALL THE NATIONAL MEDIA, CALL THE AP – GET THIS TRAP TO ALL THE STATES NATION WIDE! 75 AND 50 YEARS OF HOG TRAPPING Its BRAND NEW –
SORRY JAGER PRO, BOAR BUSTER, AND BULL CREEK – Fire employees and file for bankruptcy MISSOURI HAS the most innovated trap in the history of man.
Even catches hogs the next day that missed the first day. – HOLD ON – Thought you caught the whole sounder at one time. Now I am confused!!
DUCK CREEK CONSERVATION AREA
NO HUNTING OF HOGS FOR AT LEAST 3 YEARS
Duck Creek Conservation Area 2019 Wild Hog Festival.
JULY 29TH THRU August 9th
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Duck Creek Conservation Area were closed to the public for safety reasons.
MEDIA REFUSES TO ASK THIS QUESTION"
MDC Quote: Trapping is the ONLY method successful at catching WHOLE SOUNDERS.
Then why is Duck Creek Conservation Area NOT Wild Hog Free since they have no hunting ban since 2016?
MDC Quote: Helicopters are killing the last few hogs.
If helicopters are killing the last few hogs why after 7 yeas are the same areas coming up again, again and again?
When hog hunters allow dogs in and around feral hog traps it disturbs the trapping scene and causes feral hogs to leave the area.
If it's ONLY hog hunters and they have not been allow on Duck Creek Conservation Area for 3 years why are you banning the entire general public?
Ever seen any media ask that question? NO BECAUSE THEY ARE PART OF THE FERAL HOG PROBLEM!!!!
OPPS that was back in February, guess they missed a few thousand. BHWAAAAAAAAAA
February 6, 2019 - Helicopter elevates feral hog removal at Mingo National Wildlife Refuge
https://www.kfvs12.com/2019/02/07/feral-hog-control-mingo-national-wildlife-refuge/
Be sure you scroll down and see the day after all the wild hogs still roaming Mingo - Media refused to report or show this video.
MINGO NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE AUTO TOUR
August 5th, 2019
Won't see this on local news.
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AUGUST 9, 2019
1,200 HOGS KILLED
MINGO NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE
Breaking News: 1,200 hogs have been killed on Mingo National Wildlife Refuge first 8 months of 2019:
Neighboring landowner sourced after 7 years, of thousands of man hours trapping and several dozens hours of helicopters killing hogs.
Make no mistake I applaud the fact that 1,200 hogs have been killed this year.
Is that 70%?
Because it really does not matter how many killed if you don't know how many left. I
If I asked how many? I have to fill out a freedom of information act form. As I had to do on Castor River Conservation Area.
21,676-acre Mingo National Wildlife Refuge home to 1,800 feral hogs in 2014 per Missouri Department of Conservation research.
RULES ON MINGO NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE: Feral hogs may be taken incidental to hunt with use of archery equipment until the daily bag limit of game is filled.
Mingo's Refuge Manager Quote: Trapping is another method. Experts say the hogs are so smart they often figure out how to avoid capture.
https://www.kfvs12.com/story/21749760/feral-hogs-dangerous-destructive-and-full-of-diseases/
HOW MANY WILD HOGS ON MINGO
They can’t keep their numbers straight. ROFLMAO
Mingo National Wildlife Refuge Official Management Plan 2014: 400 – 800 Feral Hogs.
Missouri Department of Conservation Official Research 2014: 1800 Feral Hogs
Mingo’s Refuge Manager Quote to Media - 2013: 200 Feral Hogs
Mingo National Wildlife Refuge 2019 - ???? Feral Hog Population
QUESTION: Is Mingo/Duck Creek and landowners around it better off today than 7 years ago?
MINGO NATIOAL WILDLIFE REFUGE
Every single Article and Interview has this remark in it from the Missouri Department of Conservation. “They’re purposely released.”
I have written multiple columns in the past 18 years and have written the Refuge.
Mingo National Wildlife Refuge. – Not one time have I ever see you place the blame on them, and they had wild hog problems since 1992.
MINGO WILDLIFE REFUGE
THE ORIGINAL HOG NURSERY FOR SOUTHEAST MISSOURI
992 - I was chased by a Wild Hog on Mingo Wildlife Refuge along with 13 other people before the they killed it, their statement was it got loose from the sale barn from across the refuge four years earlier and was 450 lbs. when it was killed.
2011 - This was my statement about Mingo Wildlife Refuge – Quote "Mingo will be like a hog nursery for the surrounding properties. They killed four the last I heard and viewed 23 different ones by Mingo Employee. This sow weighted in at 149 lbs. field dressed the other sow weight in at 233 live weight. They killed 4 today. I have the photos to show
2014
If you don’t believe me then you can see the information here in their own words back in 2014 final draft.
https://www.fws.gov/uploadedFiles/Final%20Draft%20Mingo%202014%20Hunt%20Plan%208-6-14%20amended.pdf
700 WILD HOGS ON MINGO ALONE
Mingo is 21,592 acres and has a population of wild hogs of 400-700. - This says it all - The current estimated population of feral hogs on Mingo NWR is 400-700 animals - Read the final draft you can see FWS are out of touch the is and the TOTAL ERADICATION of hogs is not the NO.1 action item it but control the population.
Hunters have taken feral hogs each year since 2011 on the Refuge. A total of 28 feral hogs have
been taken during the managed hunts since 2011 and 22 were taken in the 2013 by archery
hunters in the general hunt area (the first year reporting was required). State and national harvest
24 totals are unavailable due to lack of tracking and reporting requirements by any one agency.
Under this alternative, it is expected that hunters would harvest 75-100 feral hogs per year if
populations remain stable. As feral hog populations increase, this number could increase.
Here is a sounder of sows and pigs on our preserve. Wild hogs will breed year round, but births peak in spring and fall. Gestation is 114 days, and a sow will give birth to anywhere from 1 to a dozen piglets. She can have 2 litters a year.
WILD HOGS BY THE NUMBERS
Federal Government math is only unique to them and common person cannot make sense of it.
700 CURRENT POPULATION – Hunters kill 100 = 600 makes since so far. By the way killing a boar aka male hog only effect that animal not the future population.
ONE – Sow in a years’ time 2 litters of let’s call it 6 piglits so that 12 wild hogs born each year by one sow.
Let say there are only 20 wild hogs sow out of the 600 are wild hogs 20 sow hog’s x 12 wild hog piglets a year is 240 wild hog born in one year.
Final math problem 700 population, less 100 killed = 600 population plus 240 born = 840 new population in a year.
Do you think there is a problem, they can’t all live at Mingo Wildlife Refuge
2014 – Final Draft from Mingo National Wildlife Refuge - Mingo is 21,592 acres and has a population of wild hogs of 400-700.
2014 – I had a one on one with Dan Ashe, Director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service about the Wild Hog problem at Mingo
2015 - “In order to control feral hogs on Mingo, refuge staff has begun an extensive trapping effort. Last year aka 2015, Bio Tech Jacob Plunkett was hired to run the hog traps daily. So far since the end of bow season January 15, a total of 170 hogs have been killed on Mingo. 139 by trapping, 32 by shooting and 5 by snares. Since 2012, a total of 489 hogs have been killed on Mingo
Feral Hog killed by Hunter on Mingo Wildlife Refgue - December 2019
2019 - The refuge will be closed to all public access intermittently February 11-15, 2019 for invasive feral hog control operations
(If helicopters are killing the last few hogs why after 7 years are the same areas coming up again?) Ever seen any media ask that question?
BREAKING NEWS: February 15th, 2019 - THE DAY AFTER
Breaking News: Video Proof taken February 15th around 11:30 by Concerned Missouri citizens. Proof the MDC and USDA APHIS policy on Feral Hogs is a failure in Missouri. The day after 127 hogs killed at Mingo - Feb 13th thru 14th. MDC Quote “One of the reasons we use the helicopter is to have the most efficient means for eradicating hogs." Might want to revise that statement. - Won't see this on the local TV station.
More Video Proof of another group taken February 15th around 11:30 by Concerned Missouri citizens. Proof the MDC and USDA APHIS policy on Feral Hogs is a failure in Missouri. The day after 127 hogs killed at Mingo - Feb 13th thru 14th. MDC Quote “One of the reasons we use the helicopter is to have the most efficient means for eradicating hogs." Might want to revise that statement.
Also 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. WOW I guess everything else has gone down in price why is the Wild Hog Budget More this year? LOL
7 YEARS LATER and still shooting Pigs from Helicopter.
DC STAFF QUOTE: A helicopter gunner also is effective at KILLING THE LAST FEW HOGS in area that have managed to avoid being trapped.
PPS - You forgot to trap and shoot from a helicopter the remaining several hundreds of hogs on Mingo.
The NOW Third Video of Wild Hogs from Mingo after the helicopter- Taken Feb 22nd, 2019.
Lots of video proof of Live hogs none while helicopter was shooting?
How big must a Wild Hog get before you shoot him from a helicopter - Side of a Barn. ROFLMAO
MISSOURI WILD HOG HELICOPTERS
(If helicopters are killing the last few hogs why after 7 years are the same area coming up again?) Ever seen any media ask that question?
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
MDC STATEMENT – MDC did not participate in the aerial operation and no MDC money was used for the helicopter operations. The operations are part of a multi-year strategy by state and federal wildlife officials to eradicate the hogs.
NOTE: MDC employees where used to stop traffic from entering wilderness areas during those flights.
NOTE: Also, during the Federal Government Shutdown – At least two USDA APHIS Trappers continued to work, because they are cooperatively funded through the MDC - ASK YOU MISSOURI POLITICIAN IF THEY ARE AWARE OF THIS IN THE MDC BUDGET?
2019 - The refuge will be closed to all public access intermittently February 11-15, 2019 for invasive feral hog control operations.
AREA’S ARE CLOSED TO ALL THE PUBLIC ACCESS
Same area could be closed for the exact same time frame and hunters and dogs could be invited to kill hogs in the same area. WITH VERIFICATION HOGS HAVE BEEN KILLED unlike helicopters results.
Instead of making HUNTERS using DOGS out as the bad guys, which is counterproductive the USDA APHIS and MDC instead of using helicopters over dense Ozark Forest Valleys for $296 per pig, then a partnership should be made, working together to reduce wild hogs. Helicopters are limited on places they can go.
If Dogs can travel the Western Landscape to hunt Mountain Lion then on 100% of the landscape in Missouri can be covered by dogs, and should be used.
Successful Wild Pig Eradication Utilize Trained Dogs
MDC QUOTE in Jefferson City Feb 18th, 2019 from Deputy Director
"We are looking at the research being done in Tennessee on using dog and see how that turns out."
Really what are you waiting on. 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.
http://wild-wonderings.blogspot.com/2017/04/to-dog-or-not-to-dog-perspectives-on.html
BLACK BUZZARD IN MISSOURI
August 12, 2019
Atten: Whittenberg Cattle Farmers - Report came in that Black headed vultures eating on live cows up by Whittenberg near railroad tracks this morning. Might want to check your cattle!!! Guess they have run out of dead hogs to eat on again.
Breaking News - The Missouri Wild Hog Crisis - Mingo Wildlife Refuge - More Dead Carcasses Litter Landscape - March of 2019
Mingo Wildlife Refuge - March 2019
DOMESTIC SWINE DIES ON THE FARM
Alternative facts
Please explain why FERAL HOGS KILLED BY MDC and USDA APHIS are not required to be buried if they are such big disease carriers as the MDC and USDA APHIS say they are? 9,300 Feral Hogs left to rot in environment in 2018 and these photos are from Mingo in which 127 hogs killed by helicopter in February of 2019 and photos are from a concerned Missouri Citizen.
By the way the State of Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency buries Feral Hogs trapped and killed.
In Missouri the domestic swine industry is currently free of these diseases. So, when a DOMESTIC SWINE DIES ON THE FARM. Missouri Laws 269.020 – Disposal of dead must be deposited in a permitted sanitary landfill notwithstanding any other provision of the law or rule to the contrary, allowing it to be buried in a sanitary landfill or buried, incinerated, composted.
https://www.lawserver.com/law/state/missouri/mo-laws/missouri_laws_269-020
Wild hogs are known carriers of at least 45 different parasites and diseases that pose a threat to livestock, pets, wildlife, and in some cases, human health. The United States Department of Agriculture recognizes these risks and recommends the following precautions when handling deceased wild hogs:
Burn or bury remains from butchered wild hogs.
Environmental Health
PSEUDORABIES
https://www.aphis.usda.gov/publications/wildlife_damage/fs-disease-risk-dogs.pdf
Feral swine also carry many parasites that can be transmitted to dogs, either through DIRECT CONTACT or in the ENVIRONMENT.
One of the most dangerous diseases that can be transmitted by feral swine to dogs is pseudorabies (also known as “mad itch” or Aujeszky’s disease) because it is often FATAL to dogs. Dogs become infected through nose-to-nose contact, contaminated water or feed, ingestion of infected tissues, airborne virus, or contaminated clothing, equipment or surfaces. Symptoms may include fever, vomiting, excessive salivation, severe itching, incoordination, and seizures. Death can occur suddenly within a few days of exposure. Unfortunately, there is no vaccine or treatment for pseudorabies in dogs and it is rare for dogs to recover after exposure.
Do not feed dogs raw or undercooked feral swine meat or organs or allow them to play with, roll in, or consume any part of a carcass.
https://myfwc.com/research/wildlife/health/feral-swine/pseudorabies/
It can live up to four days outside of feral hogs.
The pig is the only reservoir host, pseudorabies can occur in dogs, cats, cattle, sheep and goats as well as MISSOURI WILDLIFE including MISSOURI PROTECTED BEARS, Coyotes, Opossums, MISSOURI PROTECTED MOUNTAIN LIONS, Raccoons, Rats and Mice.
THE MISSOURI WILDLIFE CODE! The second category of wildlife laws can be classified as the Protection of Wildlife. Some of these laws can even focus on animal as well as environmental health.
More than 30 or 50 feral hogs.
This happens yearly on Mingo National Wildlife Refuge and MDC Conservation Ground.
9,365 wild hogs killed by Missouri Government. Left to decay on landscape x 25 lbs. per hog 234,000 lbs. or 117 tons of food for Black Buzzards that are attacking Missouri Cattle.
Know one notices the Black Buzzards on video. Not one study can prove this wrong.
This is only 6000 lbs.
How a 3-Ton Mess of Dead Pigs Transformed This Landscape
Black Buzzards
Alternative facts
Please explain why FERAL HOGS KILLED BY MDC and USDA APHIS are not required to be buried if they are such big disease carriers as the MDC and USDA APHIS say they are? 9,300 Feral Hogs left to rot in environment in 2018 and these photos are from Mingo in which 127 hogs killed by helicopter in February of 2019 and photos are from a concerned Missouri Citizen.
If each hog weight was 50 lbs. that would be 6,350 lbs. of dead hogs in two days.
How a 3-Ton Mess of Dead Pigs Transformed This Landscape
https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/09/dead-feral-pig-science-ecology/
The sum of all that disturbance made the soil “weird to walk on,” says Barton, its texture had changed so much. It also wrecked the plant communities, allowing new species to colonize the area.
Even now, more than a year later, the sites remain ecologically scarred. “Will they ever go back to normal? Probably not,” Barton says.
Quote: April 11th, 2016 – The Daily Statesman
Joe Jerek, the Missouri Department of Conservation’s Statewide News Services Coordinator, said once trapped, the hogs are destroyed — most often shot — and disposed of, often by burial in a nearby pit.
In Case you don't remember this is done on a YEARLY Basis on Mingo Wildlife Refuge "aka" at least 4 years. - The dumping of hog carcasses in the waterways and environment.
2015 at 50 lbs. a hog would be 6,950 lbs. of carcasses
2016 to Half of 2017 – at 50 lbs. a hog would be 37,500 lbs. carcasses.
2019 at 50 lbs. a hog would be 6,350 lbs. of carcasses
"Trapping alone is unlikely to be successful in entirely eradicating populations."
Berryman Institute
"Trapping alone is unlikely to be successful in entirely eradicating populations."
Berryman Institute
United States Department of Agriculture APHIS WS
Mississippi State University
Association of Fish & Wildlife Agencies
Utah State University
Alabama Wildlife Federation MANAGING WILD PIGS
A TECHNICAL GUIDE LETHAL TECHNIQUES Trapping
Trapping is the most popular method for removing wild pigs from a population, and trapping programs — followed by euthanasia, not relocation — can reduce population density. Choquenot et al. (1993) found that an intense trapping program can reduce populations by 80 to 90%, but that some individuals are resistant to trapping; thus, trapping alone is unlikely to be successful in entirely eradicating populations. Unfortunately, little scientific literature exists to document which trap types and designs are most effective. Without a doubt, like most trapping, pig trapping is more art than science, and managers initiating a pig control program will quickly develop their own preferences and opinions.
MINGO WILDLIFE REFUGE
THE ORIGINAL HOG NURSERY FOR SOUTHEAST MISSOURI
1992 - I was chased by a Wild Hog on Mingo Wildlife Refuge along with 13 other people before the they killed it, their statement was it got loose from the sale barn from across the refuge four years earlier and was 450 lbs. when it was killed.
2011 - This was my statement about Mingo Wildlife Refuge – Quote "Mingo will be like a hog nursery for the surrounding properties. They killed four the last I heard and viewed 23 different ones by Mingo Employee. This sow weighted in at 149 lbs. field dressed the other sow weight in at 233 live weight. They killed 4 today. I have the photos to show
2013 - 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.
2013 - Conservation agents believe the feral hog population near Mingo National Wildlife Refuge could be the largest in Missouri
2014 – Final Draft from Mingo National Wildlife Refuge - Mingo is 21,592 acres and has a population of wild hogs of 400-700. 2014 – I had a one on one with Dan Ashe, Director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service about the Wild Hog problem at Mingo
2015 - “In order to control feral hogs on Mingo, refuge staff has begun an extensive trapping effort. Last year aka 2015, Bio Tech Jacob Plunkett was hired to run the hog traps daily. So far since the end of bow season January 15, a total of 170 hogs have been killed on Mingo. 139 by trapping, 32 by shooting and 5 by snares. Since 2012, a total of 489 hogs have been killed on Mingo
2019 - The refuge will be closed to all public access intermittently 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.
2019 - FERAL HOGS ON MINGO ARE WORSE TODAY THAN ANYTIME IN HISTORY!!!!!!
MINGO GLIMPSE OF MISSOURI FUTURE
9 %
THINK ABOUT THIS
Official Government Source
Missouri agency believes they should be considered Level/Tier 4 Feral Hog State “100,000” Feral Hogs
100,000 Feral Hogs / FY2018 - 9,300 Feral Hogs Killed by Missouri Government aka 9%
That is 61% shortfall from the 70% required to keep population Stable.
