It is Michigan and Ted Nugent was on our local 760 WJR talk radio yesterday discussing this very issue.
I missed the middle half because I had to pull into a drug store but from what I took away from the conversation is that most of the information we've been fed here in Michigan regarding feral hogs has been overstated. Specifically the numbers........
I wasn't aware that farmers of non native pigs were being targeted for extinction.......
From the article:
**** In the ISO it says “(b) Wild boar, wild hog, wild swine, feral pig, feral hog, feral swine, Old world swine, razorback, eurasian wild boar, Russian wild boar (Sus scrofa Linnaeus). This subsection does not and is not intended to affect sus domestica involved in domestic hog production.” ****
At first I thought that last sentence leaves any domestic hogs out of this regulation, but now see that the “sus domestica” probably means a specific breed. That sucks. I wonder if there are large hog industries with thousands of hogs in buildings that perhaps greased the wheels of this law?
And as for the trespassing, these guys can go anywhere. There was the case of the County guy in Washington State that went on a guy’s lawn to write him up for having some invasive weed. The guy came out with a shotgun and told him to get off of his property. The county guy called the sheriff, and when the guy came out of his house again, shotgun in hand, they killed him.