Are wild hogs taking over the wilderness of the U.S ?

yes. its a big problem for the people who preserve the native wildlife in america.

is it a big problem for you? probably not. they arent going to walk into your house or anything.

A few days ago, it was on the news that a hunter had BEEN HIRED since all his freely hunting friends hadn't put a dent in the wild hog population near Silicon Valley in CA. The herd estimate by the govt was several dozen in the immediate area, and the total of all known kills in the area for the last month was TWO pigs! These were from among the smaller stupid ones, as the older smarter ones caught on from seeing general people's body language that hunters were coming to specific areas, and the herd follows them to safety. These beasts are MUCH smarter than dogs, with equally good noses which can smell our brain enzymes (just like our dogs) and know what types of thoughts we are having, even if we remain motionless so our body language cannot be read. And soon the largest among these swine will be quite large, like these two hogs from back East.

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There's more of them in the Pennsylvania woods than I'm comfortable having around. I wouldn't call it an epidemic; but, yeah, they are there. My Texas relatives tell me feral hogs are an epidemic and extremely destructive of their farm crops.

I've been told you can shoot and eat feral hogs until you're sick and tired of shooting and eating them; AND, there's still plenty of hogs left around. The only good thing I see in all this is that if the SHTF for awhile, at least, there'll be plenty of, 'the other white meat' to carry many rural folks over the first several months.

To the first answerer due to some bills involving endangered species we have more forest land than we did in the late 1800's.

Hogs are an issue as they are an invasive and destrctive species. Luckily has not gotten to my state and I hope they don't. There is a reason why there is no bag limit or tags. They are a pest species.

I would like to go to texas someday and hunt some feral hogs. I bet the meat is good and I like bleaching skulls.

The majority of them are actually......domestic hogs gone wild. They show up in more places than most people realize. In my state it is commonly thought they live mostly just north of the Tennessee border (I live in Kentucky), but in fact have been spotted elsewhere. I would imagine anywhere you have a lot of farmland in areas that really don't support extensive agriculture (backcountry with "scratch" farms) you will find a lot of wild hogs.

here in texas. YES! you cant go down one oil top road without seeing one. or at least where i live. in texas there is not a hunting season for them. you can just pop em off one after another. that right there should tell you there taking over... and yes hog meat is mouth watering when cooked right and you cook the right sized hog.

I would yes under oath. They don`t get far from water so dry south western states will not have state wide problem except in creek bottoms .

They're becoming a problem here in Michigan. Here, they've escaped from private shooting preserves.

I worry more about housing developments & shopping centers taking over wilderness than hogs.