Wild Pigs in Texas: control options for landowners webinar - 2/16

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See below. And hear one of the best interviews ever, when Michael had Dr. Higginbotham on the show. It is one of the most requested interviews the show has done. Hear it here:

You'll have to go to the website to hear interview, it did not transfer. I'm not a hunter and found Dr. Higginbothham interesting.


“Wildlife for Lunch” webinar addressing feral hogs in Texas airing February 16, 2012

February 2, 2012

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: Courtney Brittain, cbrittain@texas-wildlife.org, 1-800-839-9453

Texas Wildlife Association has teamed with Texas AgriLife Extension to host a series of webinars covering a wide array of wildlife and land management topics. These FREE online webinars are held during the lunch hour (noon – 1 p.m., CST) so that anyone interested may tune in during the work day. The webinar series provides sound, science-based wildlife management information delivered by experts to you in the comfort of your own home or office.

The next webinar, “Wild Pigs in Texas: Control Options for Landowners”, will be held on Thursday, February 16th, 2012. The webinar will be presented by Dr. Billy Higginbotham,

Texas AgriLife Extension Fisheries and Wildlife Specialist. This webinar will concentrate on the control methods available to Texas landowners to efficiently reduce damage caused by wild pigs. Special emphasis will be placed on best management practices of trapping—considered to be the removal method that is the first line of defense for most Texas landowners. Current research efforts will also be discussed.

How to sign on:

Simply point your browser to https://texas-wildlife.webex.com on the day of the webinar and click to join the Wildlife for Lunch webinar. Each web based seminar is fully interactive and allows you to engage the experts, make comments, and ask questions during the course of the presentation.

If you cannot make the live webinar:

Each webinar is archived and available for viewing following the initial air date at the Texas Wildlife Association website: Texas Wildlife Association
For more information:

Contact Texas Wildlife Association’s Courtney Brittain at cbrittain@texas-wildlife.org or 1-800-839-9453

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[matefrio]

Seems the only control they want is paying hunters. Very few worried about land being torn up.

 

[winchster]

Seems the only control they want is paying hunters. Very few worried about land being torn up.

+1,
If they were truly worried about how big a threat the hogs are to agriculture, they'd let me come do some eradication for free.

 

[Stumpy]

Seems the only control they want is paying hunters. Very few worried about land being torn up.

+1,
If they were truly worried about how big a threat the hogs are to agriculture, they'd let me come do some eradication for free.

+1

 

[Mikewood]

Want to eradicate hogs? You have to Treat them like rats and trap or poison them.

 

[matefrio]

Want to eradicate hogs? You have to Treat them like rats and trap or poison them.

That'd not make money for the land owners feeding them corn and such to keep them around.

 

[Younggun]

I understand both sides of the debate, I don't like their side but as long as people will pay I can't say I blame them for making a few buck, If they are whining about the hogs tearimg things up and still trying to charge an arm and a leg to hunt I feel alittle different. Most in my area are very uptight about letting anyone on there place from past experience with disrespectful hunters which I find much more aggrivating(the hunters, not the landowner)

 

[txgunner00]

I understand both sides of the debate, I don't like their side but as long as people will pay I can't say I blame them for making a few buck, If they are whining about the hogs tearimg things up and still trying to charge an arm and a leg to hunt I feel alittle different. Most in my area are very uptight about letting anyone on there place from past experience with disrespectful hunters which I find much more aggrivating(the hunters, not the landowner)

This is very true. Some people are just a$$holes and don't take care of anything they don't own.

I can't blame land owners for wanting to make a buck but some want to have their cake and eat it too.

 

[RickP]

+1

+1

 

[RickP]

Seems the only control they want is paying hunters. Very few worried about land being torn up.

+1

+1

 

[Mikewood]

That is because there are almost no working cattle ranches or farms in Texas anymore. Crops and stock are insured and brokered and land is owned by gentlemen farmers and not working farmers. When there are real working farms there are Zero hogs. They are trapped and poisoned into extinction. Subsistence (real) Farmers can't afford to loose a crop.