Rob Cox wrote an article for the the Wall Street Journal recently on hunting wild boar in Florida. It piqued my interest because this Monday I’m heading to False Cape SP with my father and a friend to do some camping for my state parks series. The False Cape area, including the Back Bay NWR, is the only place in the state where you can find wild hogs. There are lottery hunts for hogs in the fall, but I’m just hoping to get close enough next week to get a picture of one of two. I spoke with a ranger at the park, and she said it shouldn’t be a problem finding the beasts. The park has a population well in the hundreds, she said.
If you want to read more about wild boars in this country (and, really, who doesn’t?), check out this New Yorker article by Ian Frazier from a couple of years
ago. It goes into the history, biology and hunting of feral swine.
http://www.wesjones.com/hogswild.htm
And, of course, no hog blog would be complete without a reference to Hogzilla—King of Feral Swine.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hogzilla
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