boar south of red deer?
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Actually raised my eye brows.
Had some around here, but they've been eliminated. What I keep hearing is that further north is the place to go, but the populations are thin and widely scattered, so it's not a certain thing. Lot of supposes out there, but real sightings are tough to pin down. Supposedly some in the NS river valley in Edmonton, for one. Government claims they are coming in from Saskatchewan, according to the paper, but they didn't say where. Got my son, who works for Alberta Ag to try and find out . Then, the rush by a wild eyed bunch of guys with guns to the country, has made some landowners leery. This is strictly a private land Hunt, so if you don't have permission, you're out of luck. Officially a Pest according to the Government of Alberta, so landowners are obligated to get rid of them.
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Had some around here, but they've been eliminated. What I keep hearing is that further north is the place to go, but the populations are thin and widely scattered, so it's not a certain thing. Lot of supposes out there, but real sightings are tough to pin down. Supposedly some in the NS river valley in Edmonton, for one. Government claims they are coming in from Saskatchewan, according to the paper, but they didn't say where. Got my son, who works for Alberta Ag to try and find out . Then, the rush by a wild eyed bunch of guys with guns to the country, has made some landowners leery. This is strictly a private land Hunt, so if you don't have permission, you're out of luck. Officially a Pest according to the Government of Alberta, so landowners are obligated to get rid of them. Grizz
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There was two news articles recently about wild boar in Alberta. The second story from the Calgary Sun put a bit more light on the matter. There in this news story it was said that within the Cypress Hills park, there was evidence of them crossing over from Saskatchewan to the Alberta side. Also another hunting guide (of upland birds maybe?)from Empress Alberta said pretty much the same thing. Empress is 270 kms NE of Calgary. The quoted number from the first story of maybe 400 in the province total, was also brought into question. It is believed this number is much too low. This was right from the fellow in charge of SRD.
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I am from Whitecourt and by all accounts the boar population around Mayerthorpe is getting out of hand. Story goes the busted the fence on a hunt farm and the rest as they say is history. The news papers,around here anyway, have said that Lac St. Anne county is offering a bounty
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Sorry those rumors are very grossly exaggerated, my friend grew up 1 mile from a wild bore farm and still lives there to this day and he may only shoot a few boar a year. They have been getting shot at for 20 years out of every pickup truck window and tractor door and now only live in very limited areas, all private land with no hunting allowed. Once in a while a very small population will grow to easily shoot able numbers but only every few years and you never know were it will be (guaranteed its private land). There are a pile of cougar and some wolf that seem to take down more pigs than anything else.
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Some of the counties that subscribed to the provincial bounty were/are very proactive in this eradication program. I mentioned this problem at a small sporting goods store once. The two guys that worked there said one rural county "hired" people to kill the escaped wild boar. An incentive of twice the bounty was paid for each of them. Hence the dramatic drop of wild boar in that county over 18 months. I do believe the province also passed legislation that farmers or rural land owners had to allow these employees access if escaped wild boar was suspected on thier property. Also because this is an eradication program, some rules of fair chase are out the window, such as unplugged shotguns, electronic calling (if it would work) are legal, for taking free roaming wild boar in Alberta. What I think is also could be true, is that because wild boar like to live/hide in rotten little areas with lots of thick ground cover, getting an accurate count of them could be nearly impossible. That number could be higher or lower than what we believe to be the truth. Personally I think we will or have cut down thier numbers significantly, but there will always be a mating pair that gets away and thier numbers will be small, but always present. The geographical fact is, we share a long eastern border with Saskatchewan. I believe Saskatchewan does not offer a bounty on them at this time.
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