Montana trying to prevent Canadian bacon invasion

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‘Squeal on pigs’ campaign aims to alert state officials of wild pigs


If you make a living off the land in Montana and a line of wild hogs ever comes trotting over a nearby ridge, your next gig could very well be in a Billings supermarket or auctioning horses in Missoula.

In the the twisted name of survival, those porcine Hell’s Angels of the animal kingdom will destroy mega-tracts of farm and ranch land, kill your livestock, poison the water, trample fencing, spew parasites and leave a trail of damage the Luftwaffe would envy.

“Nasty, vicious, super-adaptable and crafty creatures,” says Dr. Ryan Brook of the University of Saskatchewan, who has studied feral pigs and their sinister doings in Canada and the U.S. for decades. “It would be all over if they knew how to fly. (That’s when) I’d be building an (underground) bunker.”

These super-smart, steel-tough monsters — termed “deleterious exotic and invasive creatures” in animal-science circles — present no immediate threat to Montana’s ecology, environment or commerce, according to state officials.

Read more: https://dailymontanan.com/2021/06/06/montana-trying-to-prevent-canadian-bacon-invasion/

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1. Maybe we need another wall

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2. There are feral pigs all over the world, that cause great harm...

Problem is, that one can't allow endless hunting or poisoning that wiped out the Buffalo almost. Being that massive areas of the US are populated, one can't just go wild and use poison, go shooting, etc. (look at deer hunting in populated areas, they're trying to use Bow and Arrow techniques, but too small of an effort, and some such efforts still failed to reduce targeted populations). We also can't rely on native predators to prey on feral populations, they're gone for the most part.

The powers that be just allowed hunting of the massive snakes (pythons) invading Florida finally (several weeks ago). I did think
that FL had an annual rally / contest to capture these snakes too, but these efforts will be way too late if you ask me.

Politics often times is way too late to stop an invasion of sorts, look at Australia's Rabbit/Mice/Cane Toad invasions, look at the invasion of Ants, Armadillos, and Killer bees in the southern part of the US...we can't even effectively manage our fisheries and keep illegal fishing suppressed so fishing stocks can recover. Quite a few of them (fishing grounds) are gone. All due to illegal human fishing.