You can learn more about the ongoing battle against feral hogs in Texas and around the country by viewing the June, 2020 Virtual Wild Pig Conference videos HERE.ĭespite years of intense hunting and trapping, Texas is losing the war on feral hogs. “Man has been moving sus scrofa or wild pigs since the Middle Stone Age or Neo-Mesolithic times, and specifically I think in northwestern Europe, possibly Scandinavia, where its documented they were moving wild pigs and this is in the pictographs and things of that nature, and the indications are that they were hunting them.” “I think an interesting fact is that wild pigs, whether feral or native, wild Eurasian boars in Europe, it goes to the human fascination with sus scrofa. “I would say this happened worldwide, including Texas,” he said. One, property owners want to put huntable game on their land for recreational purposes, and two, they can get other hunters to pay for the privilege of hunting hogs on their land.įoster says he’s not surprised, given the long and intimate history of men moving swine.
The reason feral hogs are hitching rides in the beds of pickups is probably two-fold. How did they spread so far and so wide? They had help. “There’s no confirmation of pigs in El Paso County, but having worked out there in that desert for a good chunk of my career, and seeing the changes to the landscape, you don’t rule it out,” said Justin Foster, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department research coordinator in Region II in the Panhandle. Only El Paso county is allegedly pig-free, but even that is in doubt. As The Brownsville Herald reports, feral hogs are now known to be in 253 of Texas’s 254 counties. UPDATE: One year later, Texas’s pig problems have only gotten worse.
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