Canadian 'super pigs' set to spread disease and damage the environment in the US.

MiG25 said:
Are you saying pigs will run amuck in the Hudson's Bay Lowlands or Canadian Shield? I'll bet ya they don't/won't/can't. To use your example, Germany has a significantly milder Climate than most of Ontario.
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Well considering they live in Siberia too... not saying they're there now, but I certainly wouldn't write it off as impossible...
 
Suther said:
Well considering they live in Siberia too... not saying they're there now, but I certainly wouldn't write it off as impossible...
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Coles Notes, the Blue is hospitable to Pigs, which is similar to the portions of Siberia that Boars are able to live in. There might be a few in the Green but they aren't going to thrive. You'll note that few people live outside the Blue as well.

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MiG25 said:
Coles Notes, the Blue is hospitable to Pigs, which is similar to the portions of Siberia that Boars are able to live in. There might be a few in the Green but they aren't going to thrive. You'll note that few people live outside the Blue as well.

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That light blue map (except for the line going to Moosonee on James Bay) sort of follows what might be considered white tail deer range too. Wonder if hard winters in the light blue fringe areas might control populations? I live in that area in Ontario and MNR already have cameras out on the agricultural and fringe areas from Thunder Bay - Manitoba border looking for them. They would have certainly thrived in this years winter, but last year with a consistent 50+ cm of snow on the ground and a lot of -25-30 days I am not sure how they would have handled that.
 
MiG25 said:
Coles Notes, the Blue is hospitable to Pigs, which is similar to the portions of Siberia that Boars are able to live in. There might be a few in the Green but they aren't going to thrive. You'll note that few people live outside the Blue as well.

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And you'll note that the Rocky Mountains to New Brunswick includes a ####load of great habitat for them with very low human population densities. A perfect combination for them to survive regardless of how much effort we put into hunting them...
 
Suther said:
And you'll note that the Rocky Mountains to New Brunswick includes a ####load of great habitat for them with very low human population densities. A perfect combination for them to survive regardless of how much effort we put into hunting them...
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A year round season with no bag limits will control them in this country. The "scientists" and bureaucrats are anti-hunting full stop.
 
medvedqc said:
even with tiger and brown bear they are still roaming in siberia ...
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Yes, the cold and tigers and brown bears don’t keep them down … I was more or less joking, but the Canadian Tiger has a nice ring to it lol. We’ve long seen the success in australia of bringing in new invasive species in attempts to control other invasive species.
 
City Boy said:
Yes, the cold and tigers and brown bears don’t keep them down … I was more or less joking, but the Canadian Tiger has a nice ring to it lol. We’ve long seen the success in australia of bringing in new invasive species in attempts to control other invasive species.
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Time for those scientists to quit fooling around with mammoths and get staryed on sabre toothed tigers. - dan
 
Suther said:
It doesn't matter what you call it, shooting them isn't an effective means of eradicating them. On private land in Georgia there is no bag limit, you can hunt them at night, and you can spotlight, and hog numbers are only going up.
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And from what others are saying, trapping isn't working either.

so what is the best approach?
 
Georgia has essentially a year round growing season and is, biologically/agriculturally, vastly more productive than the Prairies.
 
Jmcc said:
And from what others are saying, trapping isn't working either.

so what is the best approach?
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Trapping works. But not the traditional style of set a trap, leave it, come back later and see what you've got. That way will basically ensure you create trap shy pigs. What you need is a manually triggered trap and someone on site to trigger the trap ONLY when the entire sounder is in the trap. This method has been used successfully to remove pigs from sensitive areas in the US, but it is too cost intensive for widespread adoption.

MiG25 said:
Georgia has essentially a year round growing season and is, biologically/agriculturally, vastly more productive than the Prairies.
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They also have 10 million people in an area that's only twice the size of New Brunswick.
 
Too bad they can’t be genetically modified to be three times bigger, then hunting them would take on a completely different dimension, like hunting aggressive killer moose with huge tusks.
 
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