In the war to control the wild hog population in Texas, helicopter hunt operators and farmers with large tracks of land have an alliance. Large landowners allow hunting flyovers to help thin out ...

Wild Encounters. Get Paid to Hunt Feral Pigs in Texas. Posted: January 10, 2025 | Last updated: March 7, 2025 "James Bigley Ranches offers unique insight on ranches, Western history ...

While wild pigs can be a fun target for hunters, they cause millions of dollars in damage across Texas. Some Texans have found a way to turn a profit on the problem.

An increasing population of resilient "super pigs" in Canada is posing a threat to northern U.S. states. These wild pigs are crossbreeds with the survival skills of wild boars.

Back in 2003, TPWD estimated there were about 1.5 million wild hogs in the state. The department’s 2020 estimate of 2.6 million represents a 1.1 million-increase in fewer than 20 years.

In Bryan, Texas, the company Helibacon charges hunters about $3,000 to spend two hours in a helicopter, gunning down wild pigs with everything from assault rifles to fully automatic submachine ...

The problem has gotten so bad it's legal to hunt hogs from the sky as hog hunters in Bay City, Texas, Ryan Ashcraft and his girlfriend, Morgan, take out the animals from above.

The wild pigs in Canada are unique because they were originally crossbred by humans to be larger and more cold-hardy than their feral cousins to the south. This suite of traits has earned them the ...

Landowners, farmers and ranchers across Texas have at least one common enemy: The bands of feral hogs that rip through their land, causing over $500 million in damages each year. These descendants ...

First introduced by European colonizers in the 1500s, the feral pigs interbred with the Eurasian wild boars introduced in the 1900s for sport and created the tusked hybrid now seen across the U.S.

Texas wildlife authorities are testing a new way of controlling feral hogs via poisoned bait that they say could be a game-changer in mitigating the millions of dollars in damages that wild pigs ...