He says if hunting them was legal, it would just scatter them, causing a multitude of new population pockets. “With most wildlife populations, if we’re trying to reduce abundance, we want to use hunters as tools for wildlife management. It’s efficient, it’s cheap, and that sort of thing. Because the hogs are so prolific, that doesn’t work very well,” said Ricketts. Ricketts says the proof is in the pudding – unlike neighboring states that allow public feral swine hunting, Kansas is the only one with fewer hogs now than in 2004.
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