Resource Number: 17250
Title: The Impact of Wild Pig Hunting Outfitters on Wild Pig Populations Across the Southeast
Description: Wild pigs (Sus scrofa) are a non-native invasive species brought to the United States in the 1500s by Spanish explorers. In the United States, estimated damage to agriculture and other property attributable to wild pigs exceeds 1.5 billion dollars a year (Pimentel 2007). Wild pigs are habitat generalists. The combination of habitat availability, high fecundity rates, translocation by humans, dispersal from shooting preserves, and natural population expansion, has resulted in wild pig populations in 33 of 50 states (USDA 2018).
Last Updated: August 27, 2021
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