Invasive species in Idaho is a problem. Being mostly plants on the top 10 list of Invasive species in Idaho, the feral hog is slowly making it’s way to the south and west boarder of Idaho. First being introduced in the 1500’s by Spanish explorers, in Tampa Bay, Florida, the feral hogs has slowly choked the wildlife of the southern statesand beyond, but they have also shown signs of huge population growth in 45 of 50 states in America. In Texas the war between human and hog has resulted in a lost for the humans, because of the rate of reproduction, the hogs are too high in population to get rid of, and the damage they cause is in every aspect of farming and everyday life, they costed around 15 million in damge in Texas alone, So when dealing
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The feral hog causes damage to anyhing and everything, in Texas alone the feral hogs caused 1.5 million dollars in agricultural damage, not only do they cause farming damage but the amount of residential damage has increased. From the over population of the hogs, they are starting to run out of room in forests and pastures so they are making their way in to residential areas, where they are destroying peoples lawns and yards, and people with farms and other land are having their crops, roads, fences, and livestock harmed, not only do they destroy things on a large scale they hurt things on a much smaller scale, from different types of bacteria and viruses. The overhwelming size of the pigs has made states like Texas, Oklahoma, And Arkansas implement new laws to stop are slow down the rate of the pigs, and the Idaho has had the chance to watch them struggle and basically lose the battle, so for us to not end up like those states we need to create laws here in Idaho.
One solution that could be adapted here is the free-for-all law, this law was used in texas for a short time, but they changed it with a lot more rules. The original idea was, if you see a feral hog anywhere, besides urban areas, to kill it however you could. The law would work, but with the mass amount of people and pigs going at it, the cons out weigh the pros, some of the cons included were, where do they put the pigs? Or what if people dump illegaly? And what if the …show more content…
Why? Well from reading multiple sources the feral hogs, although wild, are extremely nutritious and makes a good BBQ, There are many pros to this soultion considering the different benefits from making more pig like lots, you could replace some of the domestic pig feed lot uses with a wild feral hog which is basically identical, and would also get rid of some of the wild hogs. Another pro to a feed lot is to feed the homeless, you would take highly
The feral hog causes damage to anyhing and everything, in Texas alone the feral hogs caused 1.5 million dollars in agricultural damage, not only do they cause farming damage but the amount of residential damage has increased. From the over population of the hogs, they are starting to run out of room in forests and pastures so they are making their way in to residential areas, where they are destroying peoples lawns and yards, and people with farms and other land are having their crops, roads, fences, and livestock harmed, not only do they destroy things on a large scale they hurt things on a much smaller scale, from different types of bacteria and viruses. The overhwelming size of the pigs has made states like Texas, Oklahoma, And Arkansas implement new laws to stop are slow down the rate of the pigs, and the Idaho has had the chance to watch them struggle and basically lose the battle, so for us to not end up like those states we need to create laws here in Idaho.
One solution that could be adapted here is the free-for-all law, this law was used in texas for a short time, but they changed it with a lot more rules. The original idea was, if you see a feral hog anywhere, besides urban areas, to kill it however you could. The law would work, but with the mass amount of people and pigs going at it, the cons out weigh the pros, some of the cons included were, where do they put the pigs? Or what if people dump illegaly? And what if the …show more content…
Why? Well from reading multiple sources the feral hogs, although wild, are extremely nutritious and makes a good BBQ, There are many pros to this soultion considering the different benefits from making more pig like lots, you could replace some of the domestic pig feed lot uses with a wild feral hog which is basically identical, and would also get rid of some of the wild hogs. Another pro to a feed lot is to feed the homeless, you would take highly