Feral Hog Management

Currently, 12 BCA members participate in a cooperative feral hog management program, cost-sharing with EDF the expense of a full-time hog trapper. The hog trapper is Jesse Paul McBeth of Utopia. Jesse Paul uses a variety of methods, including box traps and corral traps, as well as specially trained dogs. This program has run continuously since 2003 with the following results:

This chart shows that the density of hogs (hogs caught per 100 acres - light blue line) has generally declined since 2004 (while at the same time participating ranch acreage was increasing - dark blue line).


Total hogs caught on participating ranches by year