Indiana has a hog problem?

[jjas]

wildindiana.com/indiana-hog-problem/



Thoughts?

[dbd870]

I will leave it those farther south; I suspect it is not a large number-at least right now

[swetz]

My place is in Southern Indiana, but I've never seen any sign or got anything on trail cams. I've never spoken to anyone who has so everything I've heard is from the occasional article such as this one.

What I've heard is roughly as follows. Several years ago someone acquired and released some hogs as they were tired of going out of state to hog hunt. Nothing was ever proven as to who, but people had a pretty good idea. Ever since there has been a small population in various places, but they haven't seemed to explode in terms of population, at least not yet.

As I said, I have no first hand knowledge of them, but I guess it's just a matter of time if they are here. Even if someone didn't release any, aren't there feral hogs in Kentucky?

[throbak]

They got a pic of one on game camera at Muskatatuck NWR I saw the pic shown at a workshop

[wesb81219]

We already have a habitat problem ... humans. We certainly don't need wild hogs here.

[medic22]

Ive only heard the stories about peabody unleashing its employees on a hog population at the wild boar mine. Ive never seen anything to suggest a substantial population down in the far south.

[duff]

Know of guys who have killed a few. I personally have never seen them or signs of them. I have lived in nw lawrence county for 9 years now. They are south and east of me into Jackson Co.

[GS1]

May 28, 2017 10:03:49 GMT -5 medic22 said:

Ive only heard the stories about peabody unleashing its employees on a hog population at the wild boar mine. Ive never seen anything to suggest a substantial population down in the far south.

There were hogs at Wild Boar mine, but they were mostly, if not completely, gone before it became Wild Boar.

[Jamie Brooks 1John5:13]

May 28, 2017 11:29:48 GMT -5 duff said:

Know of guys who have killed a few. I personally have never seen them or signs of them. I have lived in nw lawrence county for 9 years now. They are south and east of me into Jackson Co.

Are you sure you don't live in Green Co?

[bill9068]

Never seen or heard from anyone about wild hogs this way. I live in Vanderburgh county but hunt in three southern counties. We used to raise hogs years ago and slaughter in winter, feed them anything we had sometimes coal when a coal truck flipped on a dirt road by us. Got a friend who lives an hour east of Louisville and he has a hog problem but he's in KY.

[duff]

May 28, 2017 15:22:35 GMT -5 Jamie Brooks 1John5:13 said:

May 28, 2017 11:29:48 GMT -5 duff said:

Know of guys who have killed a few. I personally have never seen them or signs of them. I have lived in nw lawrence county for 9 years now. They are south and east of me into Jackson Co.

Are you sure you don't live in Green Co?

I can almost see the mouth breathers from my back porch!

[jackryan]

Their concern is simple and perhaps legitimate: more recognition of the hogs will create a greater demand for hog hunting while also causing problems for area landowners when “yahoos” show up and demand to hunt or, more commonly, just trespass on private property.

Unfortunately, a few folks not only disagree, they are actively sabotaging the effort. A small group of idiots continue to destroy the traps or work to keep the hogs away. In some cases, they have snuck in before the DNR and taken pigs to raise for dog training or as hunting stock.

I think he hit that nail squarely on the head.

"Idiots" is putting it nicely.