If there's heavy cover hogs are hard to eradicate. With a lot of the west being fairly open they would be fairly easily kept out. Here in KS they went from no season to shooting only with a permit. Too many idiots were trying to release them to establish a huntable population when it was open season on them

100% correct

In MN it is illegal to kill a wild hog. They have done this in their infinite wisdom to prevent the illegal release of hogs in our state. This information about wild pigs was printed in the MN outdoor News a couple weeks ago. We can believe what we want but this is eventually going to be a problem.

if you like u tube video'es , go to yowt yowt , he traps hogs , think in missippi. probably makes a living at it. he arranges to give the hogs to people , wanting to fill their freezer. amazing how many he gets. old243

These hogs are more adaptable than what most give them credit for. They live in the Palo Duro Canyon, they are everywhere in the Big Bend part of Texas. A lot of you folks up north have terrain just like this. They will burrow under the leaf duff to stay warm and hide, they will do the same with snow. Disease is the only thing that will knock them out. Kidney worms and that bitter 2 degree cold we had two years ago is what whacked their numbers down here. However, if you have a Russian boar hog crossed with other ferrals. that is gonna be a huge problem. Especially in the wide expanse open areas where the human population is very sparse. dont think they cant survive your winters. They have in Russia for years and in other cold climate countries.

ND made it 100% illegal to hunt, shoot, transport, pen or catch feral hogs. They feel if no one can have a high fence hunt, it will cut down on the getting loose and if no one can hunt them why would someone turn them loose. So maybe your statement is 100% for SD, but not all the US.

they WI-DNR asked us to have a hunting license or be land owner.

I think even that is a mistake but they want to have some way to say hey you with the gun out here hunting in any month of the year what are you doing , who are you , so if they make coyote and hog hunting a license activity it makes them feel better about their enforcement model.
there isn't a year I don't have a small game license so no skin off my back.

so far only a few local populations got out of farms or game farms and they were killed

ND spent a great amount of money surveying the Peace Garden area and paid for flights in Canada 15-20 years ago trying to track down the established population then. It was a gong show when they started shooting.

Round hay bales lined up in rows was their favourite nursing sites for winter. Grapefruit size little ones were everywhere when the bales were moved

I know the guy that was going into Canada doing the hog study. I don't know of any litters that have made it through the winter in ND. WS shoot a few pigs once in a while, but it is small numbers once or twice a year. From what I remember Canada had a program to help farmers and ranchers set up high fence hunts for pigs. It is hard to keep pigs in a pen much less 100 plus acres. I think that was where the gaggle started.

In my area if a domestic pig gets loose, it is quickly rounded up and penned up. If the owner wants it back, he has a very short time to speak up before it will be in the catcher's freezer. Some of these guys are really good at it.

You keep them there.If I want to shoot some,,Ill come visit.

I've watched a bunch of his stuff.
Its Yawt Yawt, tho.

Trapping is more effective than hunting.
If done right you can get 10-20 or more at a time and there are no survivors.

Hunting generally doesn’t put a dent in the population. Some of the stuff they live in is pretty thick which rules out sleds, here anyway. And if I were a wolf, a deer would probably be much easier to deal with. I think Saskatchewan was getting the whole sounder into a pen with some bait and offed em.
It’s when wild boar breed with a domestic pig like a “large white” that -can get crazy. When I worked at hog barn we shipped off an old 940lb boar for wieners……haha

Ontario MNR also does not allow hunting. Supposedly, this is science based because just shooting Willy nilly is ineffective for eradication and splits up the Sounders and makes trapping inefficient.
Our conversation group OFAH are on board with this approach also.
We're supposed to just report the sighting so either our understaffed and underfunded MNR can show up a month late to the party or the government can hire some overpriced "consultants" to come in and shoot them.
Personally, I think providing licenced trappers with some training and BMPs to get a certificate could generate a nice income stream AND be more effective than the local drunks shooting at them with Cooey .22s LOL...

I live across a few lakes from the peace gardens. I don't think there's much for hogs in the area. The locals have a no-questions asked on a few species, including pigs. I'm more likely to hit an alpaca or farm pig at a particular bend in the road, than ever see a wild hog. And I have 7000 acres of wildlife area around me.

I'll have to ask the pilots and the state trapper if they are finding any pigs this year.

I can see your point, but you are also kinda making mine also. As originally stated, these invasives are going to show up whether they can be hunted or not. Kinda like the ND prairie moose, but without the ability to eradicate them without a fine for poaching I would assume… Don’t ya think the state trappers already have enough to work on, much less eat up that much more tax $. Hope they eventually make it here I guess, I’d love an endless supply of bacon, and with the decline of prairie dogs, maybe a new pest to practice on..

BMPs? The Russian armoured personnel carriers? Hahaha.
We can shoot ‘em but I think guys just get the odd one by chance around here. Seems they’re more west for now. Manitoba Pork Council set up a site…..
https://squealonpigsmb.org/

You have to kill 80% every year to stay even.