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<blockquote data-quote="Jared" data-source="post: 3059162" data-attributes="member: 3725"><p>You COULD look at it in a way its protecting the hogs from everyone except those specifically allowed to hunt them. However, as I stated in my first post, trapping of hogs would still be legal so looking at it as "protecting" the animal is just false. The goal is to eliminate any way to make a profit from feral swine. In my opinion money and general sport hunting has been two of the biggest culprits in creating the widespread problem we have today. Doing away with hunting hogs in general (w/ the aforementioned exceptions) would disable any hog hunting market value that private landowners and hunting guides/outfitters can take advantage of. As I stated before, we realize that our WMAs have unwillingly been utilized as feral swine relocation sites. IF we were to stop all the hog hunting on those properties then that would eliminate one more reason and place for people to release them.</p><p></p><p>We know that "hunting" hogs does little to nothing to benefit the effort of managing the feral hog population. We also know that trapping hogs is an effective tool that is under utilized due to time, expense, and effort required. Aerial gunning has proven itself to be extremely effective in eradicating hogs from an area. </p><p></p><p>As you can see in my first comments, my OPINIONS regarding this topic are based ONLY on the "what if" the State/Gov't had the funds and landowner permission to conduct a statewide aerial assault on the hog population. Only then would I suggest and believe these efforts would be a success.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jared, post: 3059162, member: 3725"] You COULD look at it in a way its protecting the hogs from everyone except those specifically allowed to hunt them. However, as I stated in my first post, trapping of hogs would still be legal so looking at it as "protecting" the animal is just false. The goal is to eliminate any way to make a profit from feral swine. In my opinion money and general sport hunting has been two of the biggest culprits in creating the widespread problem we have today. Doing away with hunting hogs in general (w/ the aforementioned exceptions) would disable any hog hunting market value that private landowners and hunting guides/outfitters can take advantage of. As I stated before, we realize that our WMAs have unwillingly been utilized as feral swine relocation sites. IF we were to stop all the hog hunting on those properties then that would eliminate one more reason and place for people to release them. We know that "hunting" hogs does little to nothing to benefit the effort of managing the feral hog population. We also know that trapping hogs is an effective tool that is under utilized due to time, expense, and effort required. Aerial gunning has proven itself to be extremely effective in eradicating hogs from an area. As you can see in my first comments, my OPINIONS regarding this topic are based ONLY on the "what if" the State/Gov't had the funds and landowner permission to conduct a statewide aerial assault on the hog population. Only then would I suggest and believe these efforts would be a success. [/QUOTE]
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