noharleyyet
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Here are a few excerpts from an article I ran across today by our county's ag extension agent, Joe Raff.
According to Mr. Raff, the early Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto dropped off the first load in 1539. There are now 30 states with feral hog populations with Texas leading the the census with between 1 and 2 million (pretty large gap I thought). There are 23 feral hog subspecies worldwide. In Texas, feral hogs are descendants of domesticated hogs gone wild, Eurasian boars or a cross between the two. They now inhabit every county in the state, with the exceptions of the extreme western Trans-Pecos and western Panhandle.
A Texas Cooperative Extension survey indicated hog hunters paid in a range of $25 to $1,000 for a hog hunt with the average price paid being $169.
Hunting activity is concentrated in the state's most heavily hog-populated areas. These include the Pineywoods, northern Post Oak Savannah, Hill Country, South Texas, and the Rolling Plains.
According to Mr. Raff, the early Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto dropped off the first load in 1539. There are now 30 states with feral hog populations with Texas leading the the census with between 1 and 2 million (pretty large gap I thought). There are 23 feral hog subspecies worldwide. In Texas, feral hogs are descendants of domesticated hogs gone wild, Eurasian boars or a cross between the two. They now inhabit every county in the state, with the exceptions of the extreme western Trans-Pecos and western Panhandle.
A Texas Cooperative Extension survey indicated hog hunters paid in a range of $25 to $1,000 for a hog hunt with the average price paid being $169.
Hunting activity is concentrated in the state's most heavily hog-populated areas. These include the Pineywoods, northern Post Oak Savannah, Hill Country, South Texas, and the Rolling Plains.
