Missouri has a wild hog problem and asking help from hunters isn’t doing anything to cure the problem, said Denise Brown, assistant director of the conservation department.
“They are so prolific,” said Denise Brown, assistant director of the state conservation department. “Asking the hunters to help us just isn’t getting it done.”
With an estimated 5,000-10,000 hogs littering the landscape destroying anything and everything in their path, the state is considering some pretty drastic measurements.
Among the options under consideration by the Missouri Conservation Commission: tracking dogs, live traps and aerial gunning from helicopters.
The department also wants to outfit trapped hogs with tracking devices that would allow hunters to find clusters of animals once those hogs are released to reunite with their herds.
This should be a hog hunters dream. Tracking devices to make it easier to locate herds of hogs should help.
Calling all Missouri hog hunters. Hogs on the loose.
Tom Remington
