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dpack
Joined: 02 Jul 2005 Posts: 46168 Location: yes
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Posted: Mon Dec 11, 23 2:36 pm Post subject: pest control for responsible fun and bacon |
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upsidedowner feral pigs
as invasive species go, pigs must be in the top ten in most landscapes humans can also survive in
systematic actions might rid a few areas of them,
in areas without such programs, a high level of responsible mom and pop hunting might keep the breeding rate lower than it could be, especially if "eradication" rather than harvest targetting policy is applied, ie shoot breeding age females first, ugly but the best way to get rid of invasive mammals
death from above has assorted options, a chinook would be a good platform, plenty of sensors +pignuts + ammo+ mini gun
an A team with stealth and pignuts and then forward air control with an F16 and brimstones to do the deed might be less than cost-effective
barry out of a cessna window with a rifle might be rather slower than piggy reproduction
to do it properly and totally would be very expensive and possibly impossable
best scenario is to reduce them by whatever works in that area to numbers that have a fairly minor impact for a start, and then go after the legacy populations
the python hunters of florida use tracking and mutts to find them, the folk pop em in a sack, and get paid by the foot
it looks like a living more than eradication, not by intent but just cos they can only catch a few a day and there are "fousands of em"happily breeding in the swamps
a while back i was tempted to remove 2 mink from the environment, further tracking indicated they would have been replaced within a year by youngsters from neighbouring territories, i let them do mink stuff, we have them best get used to them |
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Mistress Rose
Joined: 21 Jul 2011 Posts: 15932
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