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re: Bears in Louisiana

Posted on 6/17/19 at 12:48 pm to
Posted by RogerTheShrubber
Juneau, AK
Member since Jan 2009
261680 posts
Posted on 6/17/19 at 12:48 pm to
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I still think they are a nuisance animal and I don’t want them around,


Do all animals have a right to exist solely because they aren't a nuisance?
Posted by LSUA 75
Colfax,La.
Member since Jan 2019
3708 posts
Posted on 6/18/19 at 12:46 am to
I’m about tired of discussing this shite,some of you guys are all in for the bears,so be it.
The fact remains hogs are taking over and I can foresee a situation like the pythons in the Everglades,they have virtually exterminated all the native wildlife there.Hogs are do tremendous damage in the state of Louisiana,among other states.Texas is feverishly experimenting with poison to try and get pigs under control.Article Mar.2019 estimated they have 2 million pigs,killing 30 % a year-shooting,trapping,helicopter hunting and they need to get that up to 70 % a year just to keep the population from growing.
Trapping is significantly more effective than hunting,some states such as Missouri have outlawed hunting pigs on public land because it interferes with their trapping programs.
I have had much better luck trapping than I ever had hunting them.Guy up the road with 2 traps like mine caught 197 in February alone,try shooting that many.
My fear is since bears are being seen close to my land( and his),If bears find our traps and eat our bait,games over.Poison will never be an option in Louisiana due to the bears,
When the hog situation gets bad enough we won’t have bears either,bears can’t out-compete pigs for food plus hogs carry bunch of diseases.Water quality studies in central Louisiana found a host of nasty bacteria that the pigs contaminated the water with.Two of the worst are leptospiros and brucellosis,dogs are vaccinated for those.
So we’ll protect the bears in Louisiana at the expense of all our other native wildlife,birds,the farmers,cattleman,our levees,on and on.Don’t make much sense to me but whatever.
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