On a brisk day in January, hunter and trapper Robert Lyle is opening the gate to the Willamar tract of the Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge, a 1,162-acre brushy patch of federally protected land near Port Mansfield, when another pickup pulled up behind Lyle’s Chevy Silverado. “You with the oil patch?” the driver asked Lyle.
“No,” he said. “I manage the hogs.”
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-WiscoDave
It's a real problem from TX all the way to the Canadian border.
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ReplyDeleteThere would be a lot fewer hogs if land owners in Texas wouldn't charge such high fees to hunt them on their property - then complain they can't eradicate the animals. That's one of the dirty little secrets of Texas' hog problem.
ReplyDeleteIf we weren't killing off big cats and had some sort of federally mandated program on how to trap and hunt with a scientific/reasonable understanding of how eradicating one species creates an effect on an unmanageable growth of others Along with large land owners curbing back their greed charging hunters - wouldn't we be in a better place!
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