Ok I did not want to de-rail a perfectly good success stories thread so I created this one.
The plan is not to outlaw sport hunting and ignore them, but rather. Outlaw sporthunting and then hire professional shooters to wipe them out. Via helicopter hunting and professional trapping. "Everybody" says this is impossible, but it has worked and will work almost anywhere. Kansas has completely stopped the spread of hogs into their state so far by establishing this policy. Just last year Tennesse outlawed sport hunting of hogs and wait and see what happens!!!
By outlawing hog hunting you accomplish several things.
First you greatly diminish the idiots from picking hogs up at point x and dropping them at point y. Why? Because it is now illegal to hunt them anywhere in the state, thus they have no motivation to move hogs around for hunting purposes. This is how the vast majority of hog populations spring up, not thru natural movement, but rather thru moron x dropping pigs at his favorite hunting spot. However I do recognize that hogs do naturally expand their territory, however not at the insane rate we have seen it spreading across the states.
Secondly, you do away with the businesses and people selling hog hunts that truly do not want to see them all gone. All motives for conservation of this "species" are now thrown out the door. Nobody can hunt them, nobody can sell them. They are simply a FERAL species that is destructive to the environment and now is being eradicated by the state goverment. Nothing more.
Hunters throw a fit everytime this is mentioned. Why? I'm not sure, other than to say deep down they really don't want to see the feral hogs gone. Is it fun to hunt feral hogs. HELL YES. But are you a true steward of the environment if you don't do every thing humanly possible to be rid of something introduced by man that is so destructive to that environment? I know it will seem to many like an extreme measure that could never posssibly work, but I am here to tell you it is THE ONLY way to be rid of hogs in your state.
That being said, I believe Oklahoma is like Texas. They talk about not wanting hogs, but they are not willing to make the sacrifices it takes to be rid of them. Oklahoma is lost, it will forever have hogs. So long as KS has the policies in place it currently does, they will remain "hog free". Now before you go to screaming KS is different ecologically........well lets just see how it works out for them in Tennesse! TN has just as much "cover" if not more than OK does! I believe it will work. Again, it takes "sacrifice" to committ to this, but IMO its worth it!
The plan is not to outlaw sport hunting and ignore them, but rather. Outlaw sporthunting and then hire professional shooters to wipe them out. Via helicopter hunting and professional trapping. "Everybody" says this is impossible, but it has worked and will work almost anywhere. Kansas has completely stopped the spread of hogs into their state so far by establishing this policy. Just last year Tennesse outlawed sport hunting of hogs and wait and see what happens!!!
By outlawing hog hunting you accomplish several things.
First you greatly diminish the idiots from picking hogs up at point x and dropping them at point y. Why? Because it is now illegal to hunt them anywhere in the state, thus they have no motivation to move hogs around for hunting purposes. This is how the vast majority of hog populations spring up, not thru natural movement, but rather thru moron x dropping pigs at his favorite hunting spot. However I do recognize that hogs do naturally expand their territory, however not at the insane rate we have seen it spreading across the states.
Secondly, you do away with the businesses and people selling hog hunts that truly do not want to see them all gone. All motives for conservation of this "species" are now thrown out the door. Nobody can hunt them, nobody can sell them. They are simply a FERAL species that is destructive to the environment and now is being eradicated by the state goverment. Nothing more.
Hunters throw a fit everytime this is mentioned. Why? I'm not sure, other than to say deep down they really don't want to see the feral hogs gone. Is it fun to hunt feral hogs. HELL YES. But are you a true steward of the environment if you don't do every thing humanly possible to be rid of something introduced by man that is so destructive to that environment? I know it will seem to many like an extreme measure that could never posssibly work, but I am here to tell you it is THE ONLY way to be rid of hogs in your state.
That being said, I believe Oklahoma is like Texas. They talk about not wanting hogs, but they are not willing to make the sacrifices it takes to be rid of them. Oklahoma is lost, it will forever have hogs. So long as KS has the policies in place it currently does, they will remain "hog free". Now before you go to screaming KS is different ecologically........well lets just see how it works out for them in Tennesse! TN has just as much "cover" if not more than OK does! I believe it will work. Again, it takes "sacrifice" to committ to this, but IMO its worth it!
