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State Allows Hunt of Feral Swine in Additional Counties:
Officials work to develop year-round removal plans
Michigan group wants up to $75 bounty on wild hogs
Jan. 10, 2009
LANSING, Mich. - The nonprofit Michigan Wildlife Conservancy wants state lawmakers to approve a bounty of up to $75 on feral pigs throughout the state.
The conservancy's Executive Director Dennis Fijalkowski estimates that if the numbers of wild pigs aren't kept in check through hunting, the population could grow to about 50,000 within two years.
The Kalamazoo Gazette and the Detroit Free Press report that between 3,000 and 5,000 of the nonnative hogs are believed to be in the state. Fijalkowski says the hogs "eat anything that moves or doesn't move."
Feral swine damage crops, carry diseases that threaten the health of domestic swine and wildlife and can be dangerous to people. The state currently allows them to be hunted in many counties.
Michigan's growing population of feral pigs
carries disease, causes damage
by Rosemary Parker | Kalamazoo Gazette
Wednesday January 07, 2009LANSING -- "When it comes to wild pigs, too few
people are following the Michigan Department of Resources advice to
"shoot first, ask questions later."
So the Michigan Wildlife Conservancy is asking for a bounty to be
offered on the animals, to wipe them out before their populations get
any bigger and the damage they wreak any more severe...." Click here to read more.
LANSING -- "When it comes to wild pigs, too few people are following the Michigan Department of Resources advice to "shoot first, ask questions later."
So the Michigan Wildlife Conservancy is asking for a bounty to be offered on the animals, to wipe them out before their populations get any bigger and the damage they wreak any more severe...." Click here to read more.
Proposed Fees Would Hog-Tie Livestock Farmers
Posted On December 05, 2008
This issue would be funny if it weren’t so frustrating: A federal proposal to charge fees for air pollution caused by burping and tooting barnyard animals could put many farmers out of business. And not surprisingly, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is just fine with that.
The newest and craziest idea from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) comes after a U.S. Supreme Court judgment last year that counts flatulence from hogs and cattle as greenhouse-gas emissions. The livestock tax would penalize farms and ranches that own more than 25 dairy cows, 50 beef cattle, or 200 hogs by making them pay a yearly fee of $175 for each dairy cow, $87.50 for every beef cattle, and $20 per pig. The measure would cost even a midsize farm up to $40,000 annually and has the potential to bankrupt most family-owned businesses.
Naturally, PETA is A-OK with the idea. The Associated Press reports:
While farmers say it would drive them out of business..." Click here to read more.Bounty system could pay hunters up to $75 apiece to kill wild hogs
“A conservation group believes the threat wild hogs pose to Michigan’s farms, forests and wildlife is so grave that the state should pay bounty hunters up to $75 apiece to eliminate the 3,000 to 5,000 feral pigs roaming in 63 counties.
If we turn a blind eye, we’ll have 50,000 in two years,” said
Dennis Fijalkowski, executive director of the non-profit Michigan
Wildlife Conservancy.
Click here to read more and to view a video to see the damage that these feral hog cause.
HOG WILD in Riverton!
Origins, numbers of feral pigs loose in Riveron unknown
Brian Mulherin - Daily News Staff Writer - September 18, 2008
"There are wild hogs loose in Riverton.
No one can say for sure where they came from and no one’s sure just how many are out there, but there are definitely hogs roaming the creek bottoms.
The prime area for the hogs seems to be bounded on the north by the Pere Marquette River, on the west by an imaginary line from the intersection of Stiles and Chauvez roads north, on the south by Chauvez Road and on the east by Scottville Road.
Earlier this summer, a hunter who asked not to be identified shot a boar he said topped out..." Click here to read more.Feral swine in Saginaw County: Shoot and test
by Brian Manzullo | The Saginaw News
Thursday May 08, 2008, 6:28 AM
"The state Department of Agriculture is encouraging residents to shoot feral swine and deliver the carcasses for testing to prevent a disease from spreading beyond a private game ranch in Saginaw County.
Laboratory technicians confirmed the presence of the pseudorabies virus in 19 sport swine Tuesday on the ranch...." Click here to read more.
Feral Swine in the U.S.
State Allows Hunt of Feral Swine in Additional Counties:
Officials work to develop year-round removal plans
March - April 2007 Issue
Wild boar problem in state
by Mike Ansel , last modified August 27. 2007"Steve Davenport of Shiawassee County is a fairly typical Michigan deer hunter, but last November he shot something that was anything but typical.
If he had not been a seasoned hunter, his encounter could very well have cost him his life.
"My plan was to hunt the woods behind my house and later in the afternoon stalk the corn rows" Davenport recalled. "A couple nice bucks had been seen in the area." Click here to read more.
Feral swine spotted near GM Poletown
April 1, 2007"According to the Michigan DNR, a number of feral pigs have been spotted along rail corridors in Wayne county, some as far east as Hamtramck Assembly and the Dequindre cut.
"At first we were surprised to find them in urban areas but feral
swine easily adapt to their surroundings and can travel great distances
in search of food sources. They likely migrated along the I-94 and
other rail corridors during the winter. They're becoming a real problem
for us", says Ken Thompson, a biologist with the Michigan DNR.,," Click here to read more.
NRC takes action to eliminate feral swine
Lansing - Feral swine - captive livestock that have escaped or been released into the wild - should be eliminated from the Michigan landscape. That was the message Dr. Steve Halstead, a veterinarian with the Michigan Department of Agriculture, hammered home at a joint meeting of the DNR and the Department of Agriculture held earlier this month in Lansing..." Click here to read more.
Hogs gone wild
November 30, 2006 -"Looking for a license to kill? You got it.
If you're a licensed hunter in Michigan, you have permission - heck, you're even encouraged - to kill any hog you see rooting around in the wild of 23 counties. (see map).
Drop the varmints for the sake of
the state's domestic swine industry, deer, stream banks and other
habitat, crops and human safety. Go hog wild...." Click here to read more.
Michigan targets feral swine
November 12, 2006
"If, come Wednesday, you find yourself hunting deer on the opening day of Michigan's firearms season and you see a wild pig, shoot it please.
ranging critters are causing crop damage, pose a serious threat to the health of their domestic counterparts, endanger humans, displace wildlife, and damage wild habitats with their endless rooting..."
Click here to read more.
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