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This approach is painfully naive. The State of Texas--which is absolutely full of hunters and gun owners and such--has "shoot on sight" rules for hunting feral

• chrisco255 6y ago
  Without the hunting though, it would be even worse. If these hogs have no natural predators, the only thing that would check their population is running out of food.
• throwaway0a5e 6y ago
  Texas problem is a land problem. You can't just see hogs in a field and shoot them. You need permission from the land owner (this goes for pretty much everywhere). Texas is particularly bad because owners see hunting as a possible revenue stream since there is literally no state land open to hunting so they don't grant permission to just anyone.
• phkahler 6y ago
  Right. Imagine if they instituted that policy when there were only 500 of them. Maybe even offered a $1000 reward. They couldn't afford that today, but this other place should do all of that right now.
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• int_19h 6y ago
  It would have likely worked back when US had enough hunters - there's no shortage of species that were wiped out in that manner before effective regulations were instituted. But these days, it doesn't even have enough to keep deer in eastern states in check, much less hogs (which multiply and spread faster).