Feral hogs invaded a N.C. preserve. These nature lovers started shooting back.
Story Date: 8/24/2018

 

Source: WINSTON-SALEM JOURNAL, 8/23/18

When feral hogs invaded a 1,400-acre tract in southern Davie County, the owners, a Salisbury-based conservation group, came up with what it says is a unique solution: Sign up hunters to settle the score. Three Rivers Land Trust, formerly known as LandTrust for Central North Carolina, has battled hogs since acquiring the farmland between the Yadkin and South Yadkin rivers in 2012. Local people say the hogs were released there illegally a couple of years earlier.

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