Okay, I stand corrected. There are two small populations in ND, and erradication of both is being attempted. The question is how they made it all the way up here when the rest of the states are shown on that map not to have any for over 500 miles. Is someone seeding these things?
The cold climate has probably kept most of the feral hogs out of your area till now-but they are very adaptable, so the hardiest are able to survive there. One of the locker plants out here makes wild hog bacon that is really good-more meat than fat, very smoky-you bring them the hog-the price is very reasonable.
I guess the same way FL got Pythons but I can’t imagine anyone owning nutria for pets. yuck.