Gaining ground. Hunting will not stop wild pigs invasion in Canada.

Other than the one my wife nailed with her Buick Roadmaster, I've only ever seen two, both at the same time, calmly eating near the highway, just a few miles west of Montmartre, SK. People talk about them being in the Moose Mountain Park in SE SK.
 
Cold Lake isn't that far away. IR identify sounder nesting areas and bring in CF 18's loaded with napalm. And a controlled burn in some areas of the Park to provide better future browse diversity. LOL!!!!
 
kjohn said:
Other than the one my wife nailed with her Buick Roadmaster, I've only ever seen two, both at the same time, calmly eating near the highway, just a few miles west of Montmartre, SK. People talk about them being in the Moose Mountain Park in SE SK.
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I edited my Post #151 - I had the wrong park named - for sure it was the Moose Mountain park, not the Duck Mountain one.
 
We had a farmer here that let his hogs free range with a 3 strand barded wire fence. Gate open often and hogs on the road. Went on for a few years, no one seemed to be worried. Hunted coyotes on his place they never seemed to be far from yard.
 
nagol said:
I’m 1hr east of Ottawa, big issue here.
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I'm less than an hour south of Ottawa and have never heard of anybody who has seen one. I used a hog to clear a half acre of dense brush and let me tell you she ate every piece of organic material in that half acre. That was just one pig. They can absolutely destroy an ecosystem in short order. Do the environment a favor and shoot on sight. It's the right thing to do.
 
Would be pretty scary to see these take off in the prairies like in the states, lots of feed and no predators in most areas

It isn’t a stretch to see them occupying the true boreal, they thrive in this environment in Russia
 
conor_90 said:
Would be pretty scary to see these take off in the prairies like in the states, lots of feed and no predators in most areas

It isn’t a stretch to see them occupying the true boreal, they thrive in this environment in Russia
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Umm - best evidence is that they started out here in the Prairies - getting loose from game farms and such - recent report said that centered within hour of Saint Brieux, Sask is likely the hot spot, centre, mother load for Canada...
 
enen said:
good plan

the Ministry is planning to bait and capture the boars
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Story appears to be that is what might work to stop them - have to catch entire sounder, not just some of them. Hunter that takes shots - kills two out of 14 - has sent other 12 running - to new areas - they do not re-group once spread by a scare like that - too smart - how they expand their turf - poor or sloppy shooters makes it worse, apparently. When a single sow can produce 24 or more in a year and shooter gets two - that is not controlling the population, at all. At most, might drive them fully nocturnal. Then what?
 
Our issues with hogs started in the prairies yes, it would be scary to see them take over like in the states mid what I’m saying. Lots of wheat and lentils to eat

Numbers might be less up north but clearly they have no issues with muskeg and frozen winters.
 
Potashminer said:
Story appears to be that is what might work to stop them - have to catch entire sounder, not just some of them. Hunter that takes shots - kills two out of 14 - has sent other 12 running - to new areas - they do not re-group once spread by a scare like that - too smart - how they expand their turf - poor or sloppy shooters makes it worse, apparently. When a single sow can produce 24 or more in a year and shooter gets two - that is not controlling the population, at all. At most, might drive them fully nocturnal. Then what?
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That's what I have read as well that hunting them is an ineffective way to eradicate them. As you say you need to remove the entire sounder to get them out of an area as any survivors will just keep breeding like rabbits and the problem continues.
There is a researcher in Sask at the University that has been studying them for years and has lots of information on the spread of boars in Canada. I saw an on-line presentation he did and it was very interesting. If I recall correctly he thinks that it may already be too late to stop the spread of them in Canada as they have become firmly established in a number of provinces and there isn't much being done to stop it. According to him the best way to eliminate them is by capturing an entire sounder with drop cages. Hunting pigs to try to eliminate them doesn't generally have a good success rate and then the animals go nocturnal and breakup into groups and spread.
 
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Hopefully,this isn't a harbinger of things to come. Until now,I posted several times why I though the science was biased,but,after spending the last two weeks reading data from Europe and the US universities and various hunting magazine articles advising against hunting them,I'm not so sure they're not altogether wrong about the no hunting theories.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world...ny-boars-pigs/
 
But if no one is going to act, and push for anything to actually be done about it then may as well hunt them. Let people feed their families etc.

Can you imagine the outcry if poison etc was used?
 
kc34 said:
That's what I have read as well that hunting them is an ineffective way to eradicate them. As you say you need to remove the entire sounder to get them out of an area as any survivors will just keep breeding like rabbits and the problem continues.
There is a researcher in Sask at the University that has been studying them for years and has lots of information on the spread of boars in Canada. I saw an on-line presentation he did and it was very interesting. If I recall correctly he thinks that it may already be too late to stop the spread of them in Canada as they have become firmly established in a number of provinces and there isn't much being done to stop it. According to him the best way to eliminate them is by capturing an entire sounder with drop cages. Hunting pigs to try to eliminate them doesn't generally have a good success rate and then the animals go nocturnal and breakup into groups and spread.
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I think that guy's name is Ryan Brook - can read article about him here - https://globalnews.ca/news/7609996/...-map-for-locating-wild-boars-on-google-earth/ - It was that article were he identified the area around Saint Brieux as the centre for Canada...

Hunting wild boar likely some fun, but generally has sucked as a population control measure - everywhere, even for feral pigs, not just for the Eurasian wild boar - Europe, Texas, Louisiana, and so on.
 
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