[NCjim]

Sooie!!! When I first saw this I was afraid that they'd had an influx of Harleys from Tail of the Dragon!

[cripplecreek]

I had to go look and find out what mast was.

[TribalPrincess2U]

Mmmmm, wild hog sausage good.

Let’s go huntin’!

[jiggyboy]

As long as your supply of deer slugs and mesquite charcoal holds up, I don’t see the problem.

[Enchante]

wild hogs everywhere? now we know where to keep all the terrorist prisoners from Gitmo!!

[GOPJ]

Seems someone brought in some Siberian wild hogs to breed with ours - and since those hogs are like African bees or kudzu - they’re spreading... everywhere.

[JustaDumbBlonde]

"Since hunting isn't allowed in the Smokies, the park employs a seasonal hog control team that keeps the population in check through hunting and trapping."

It simply amazes me that the government hasn't figured out that hunters will PAY for the privilege of controlling the population. But nooooooo ...

[Anti-Utopian]

"Since hunting isn't allowed in the Smokies, the park employs a seasonal hog control team that keeps the population in check through hunting and trapping."

That's right. They outlawed citizen hunters, then used tax money to hire bureaucrat hunters. Is there any retarded thing a Marxist won't do?

[GOPmember]

Bush’s fault!

[muir_redwoods]

Close the park to tourists for 3 weeks and open it up to hunters.

Repeat as necessary

[razorback-bert]

[Jeff Chandler]

[LeonardFMason]

Why can’t we introduce this feral species of hogs in to all large muslim nations? In my dreams I see millions of these hogs decimating poppy fields and wreaking havoc in Afghanistan.

[Svartalfiar]

Since hunting isn't allowed in the Smokies,

And there's the problem right there.

[Outlaw Woman]

A ‘declared’ hunting season to thin out the population is necessary. See? Humans do have a function (shhhhhh don’t tell the gorebots)

[KoRn]

[mamelukesabre]

What, besides a grizzly bear, can kill and eat a boar? Seems to me wild pig infestations are serious problems.

[eyedigress]

Here is a word for word on the Park. (ca.1981)


Enter now the European wild boar. Its history in the Smokies is another classic example, along with the chestnut blight fungus, balsam wooly aphid, Norway rat, starling, and a hosts of other pests, of the damage that can be done by introducing an organism to territory outside its normal range.

The wild boars in the Smokies are believed to be the descendants of animals, purportedly of stock from Germany, that escaped from a game preserve on Hooper Bald, southwest of Fontana Lake in the early 1920's.

Sounds like somebody's class project to me.

[Billthedrill]

Last I heard they had a feller or two in Tennessee who knew how to shoot. Good grief, this isn't hard - the beasties are edible. (Had some wild boar over pasta with a huckleberry reduction at a local restaurant last month. Salivating just thinking about it.)

If we weren't intended to hunt them why are they made of meat?

[umgud]

Since hunting isn't allowed in the Smokies, the park employs a seasonal hog control team that keeps the population in check through hunting and trapping.

Right there's the problem. Everybody bitches about hogs, but hang no hunting signs.

[vetvetdoug]

In 1977-1979 I worked on a project that involved the NPS, the Wildlife Department of the University of Tennessee, and the Army Reserve where we spent weekends counting the wildlife in the backwoods of the Smokies. We were allowed to carry a .45 and given the freedom to shoot any European Wild boars we came across. We only got three the whole time because they would run the minute we were detected. Even then the European Wild boars were tearing up the less inhabited and traveled areas of the GSNP. I learned how to really read a compass and practice minimum impact camping well. We camped wherever we ended up at dark and sometimes it was on the edge of some really nasty dropoffs. Greatest job for which I was ever paid.