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I know they dig up ground and maybe destroy food crops but what do they do the deer population?
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In parts of SW Oklahoma the deer herd has been hurt by the presence of all these hogs. i've seen hogs run deer out of the wheat fields and off game plots. In a year when mast is scarce it is the hogs that are least impacted. Hogs root up prime deer grazing land and cause a lot of soil erosion.
i suspect that they do. The coyote population here has been steady for many years. In those areas that are infested with hogs the number of fawns raised to maturity has gone down. One of our places had no hogs until 2006. Now there are hogs all over the place. Dozens of hogs now roam through that 80 acres and a lot of them call that place home.
The PA game commission made a very big mistake when they stopped hunters from killing hogs. Trapping hogs does not work when it is used as the only hog management tool.