New York's latest invasive species is not sneaking in through ships on the waterways...its rooting and burrowing through gardens and farms of upstate...
Once a phenomenon of the nation's South, feral swine , aka wild boars, are creeping further north through upstate NY. They are now ravaging counties north of Albany.
The big pigs are a rampaging blight, and they look like something you would not want to run into while hiking or camping.
Wild boars go hog-wild as upstate threat - Times Union
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Wild pigs are great game animals. Only problem is, a very small number of them can cause incredible amounts of damage to crops and gardens. Even worse than bears. They literally eat anything they can catch or dig up. I've hunted pigs in Penn. and where a small herd of pigs go through, it looks like you went through with a roto-tiller. They are difficult to control once established because they are extremly profolic breeders in the wild and very cagy and secretive. I seriously doubt if coyotes would be much of a factor in controling their population unless there was nothing else around to eat and the coyotes were desperate. Pigs would just be too formidable for them to tackle. If you are hiking and do encounter a wild pig, be very cautious and give them a wide berth. Those tusks can rip horrendous wounds. If you are charged, shinny up the nearest tree. Don't have to go far up the tree, 5 or 6 ft. will do it. They will have proven their point and lose interest in you fairly quickly and will move away.
"feral swine , aka NYC politicians, are creeping further north through upstate NY. They are now ravaging counties north of Albany."
We have wanted new critters to hunt...and they have been supplied.
In exchange for surrendering our freedom and autonomy to Albany...we get lots of pork.
But it in no way equals as much as we would get if we could just set out own gaming laws...much less public employee rules.
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