Not accurate. Feral hogs have been in Texas since the conquistadors introduced them in the 1500s.
Pork was a staple of the people who tamed Texas. You find them mostly in the east and south of the state. They are not desert animals.
True, the wild hogs of the Southeastern USA are descendants of the pigs that escaped from DeSoto’s and DeLeon’s explorations....................
Best to institute more qualified hunters and allow for full auto during Hog Hunts...
https://www.helibacon.com/full-auto-machine-gun-upgrade/
I own a ranch in central-west Texas (near Brownwood) and they’ve been there for years. I wonder if they got more prolific after cross-breeding with domestics.
Feral hogs do just fine in all but the harshest deserts. Every Texas county has hogs including Big Bend and Pecos County which are very dry and technically arid not semiarid. Hog hunting is a guilty pleasure of mine and some of the best is in the wide open scrublands of West Texas at night using thermal scopes and NVGs. Hogs are found in every continent in the wild except if Antarctica other than humans they are the most adaptable species on earth. The little female ones make dang fine pit smoking pigs we call them Webber pigs. If they fit in a barrel smoker once splayed out that’s good eats.
https://feralhogs.tamu.edu/feral-hog-distribution-and-expansion/