re: How does Florida get rid of a plague of pythons?

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Are there any national parks with hunting even of invasive species? There’s hunting on national wildlife refuges I know but fairly certain not in national parks.

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Yes the Smoky Mountains has an invasive pig or Russian boar problem and they had a program where interns would hunt them. It was usually interns that were recent graduates of wildlife management and fisheries programs. It worked they would go out aim to cull 30% of the estimated population. It is said they stopped that program but it could be they are not releasing information on it because some locals complain about the hunting but for reason you would think. They have moved towards trapping now with spring traps or drop net traps and wildlife team will go in dispatch pigs and leave the carcasses. There was a lottery for a park out west to remove sheep 2 years ago. The Park Superintendent of the Everglades is in control of what happens at the end of the day.