re: Wild hogs chomp and stomp their way through $90 million worth of Louisiana crops

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I would gladly shoot hogs for free. I bet a lot of guys would. But nobody is inviting me to go onto their property to do it. And then there are “ranches” that charge $1 per pound to shoot a feral hog which quickly renders it too expensive to bother with. Those places aren’t interested in eradicating the hogs.

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Most landowners are not interested in it. They see them as a source of revenue without regard to the damage they are doing to their property.

There is a way to keep them and all destructive animals in check. They do it in most of Europe. If you own land in Europe and an animal BELEIVED to have come from your land damages the property of another person you are responsible. You can mitigate this risk by allowing hunting on your land. If your hunting is properly managed and documented...you have a professional game manager keeping records of efforts and populations, the exposure is severely limited or non existent. You almost never hear of car accidents involving deek, elk and wild boars because they are micro managed instead of at the state level...each land owner is responsible. They also make a lot of money off of their effort because they have high quality hunting opportunities. Finally all hunting and fishing in Europe is considered a commercial operation...so when you kill a couple of wild boars a local meat market or restaurant can and will pay you for them. We are not really interested in doing anything. Landowners are happy to charge to kill them but won't let someone hunt on their place on a dare.