Texas has a feral hog problem

 Houston Chronicle:

Homeowners, farmers and wildlife control specialists have been locked in a bitter war for years—and it's a war they appear to be losing. According to experts in and around the Houston area, the region's population of feral hogs just keeps growing.

"It's one of the major issues we deal with and one of the main issues Texas landowners deal with without a doubt," Jamie Sugg, the Texas A&M Agrilife extension agent in Walker County north of Houston, told Houston Public Media's Robert Salinas.

Sugg told Salinas that the war against the destructive beasts is a more or less constant struggle for rural communities especially. "It's not a case of if you have a hog problem, but when. They are everywhere," Sugg said of Houston area residents' fight against the invasion, per Salinas.

Feral hogs don't just stick to rural areas outside of Houston, however: last year, a pack of them foraged their way into a Sugar Land subdivision, tearing up yards and menacing residents despite trapping and shooting efforts in the surrounding area.
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I am finding their tracks on my property around the house and in the woods.  I occasionally see them when driving and recently my granddaughter had one run in front of my wife's car doing $2000 in damage to it. They are definitely a problem.  A neighbor about a mile from where I live killed one that was so big he was unable to lift it with the bucket on his tractor to get it into the back of a truck.

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