If they could put a 10$ bounty on every hog killed. Hog problems would slow way down
I used to believe that a bounty would solve a wildlife problem, but now I know it won’t—-at least in most cases. Nutrias? Yes, I feel as though it was successful. Hogs? Beavers? No.
Too many unscrupulous “trappers”. Buying tails and turning them in. How can a county seriously expect honesty when the going rate is $3 each for as many as someone wants to buy? Anymore it seems that honesty and integrity are getting hard to find. If you know people that are honest, ya better be good to them.
Also, bounties are rarely enough to justify intense trapping. Nutrias were the exception, because huge areas were wide open to an airboat. There was no area out of their reach. With hogs or beavers, there are pockets that are too hard to reach for “road trappers” to be able to justify spending time going after.
The result is a population knocked back a little, and then it rebounds shortly after.
If a bounty were high enough, yes, professional trappers would hammer down and eradicate them. Will anyone ever pay a bounty high enough to get those professionals to kick it into high gear? Unlikely. No one could afford to pay what it would take. No one short of Bill gates, the Amazon.com dude, or the Facestalk guy Zuckerberg. So.....a bounty on hogs is out. For areas with open terrain, aerial gunning is the ticket. For everyone else, an approved poison is the only way we’ll ever have a chance of eradication or the closest thing to it.
Those are my opinions anyway. I’m not eradicating anything larger than a mouse for $10 or each or less. Maybe some people will, but I won’t