Joey Holleman of The State newspaper wrote a very nice piece on the damage caused by feral pigs in South Carolina and the crack down on illegal transportation of wild hogs. My favorite line from the article, one that would raise eyebrows among many of the Lowcountry hunters I know, is:
If there are 100 wild hogs on a tract of land, hunters would need to kill 80 of them each year to keep the population from growing, according to one study.
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