Wild boar are known to be established in Michigan and were banned in 2012. Before they were banned, wild boar were found in 65 of Michigan’s 83 counties including Macomb, Oakland, Livingston ...

Wild boars are now reported in 65 of Michigan's 83 counties, and while sightings in southeast Michigan are rare, they have been spotted in Macomb, Oakland, Livingston, and Washtenaw.

Michigan officials and pig farmers are locked in an escalating debate over new rules that make wild boars illegal in the state. The state maintains that the animals can destroy natural ecosystems ...

It outlawed the possession of any Sus Scrofa pigs — in theory these are wild boars, descended from a proud European bloodline. But in practice, all pigs, domestic and wild, descend from Sus Scrofa.

Simply put, it's any formerly captive pig that's reverted to the wild. Most of Michigan's feral swine are Eurasian boars and other exotics escaped from game ranches. For a Flint Journal story ...

More than 300 dead wild birds have been discovered in five Lower Michigan counties, and the virus is “widespread” in wild flocks, the Michigan Department of Natural Resources announced on ...

The wild ones are often called feral swine, wild boars, wild hogs or razorbacks. Europeans first brought Sus scrofa, the species that includes both domestic pigs and wild hogs, to North America in ...

House File 2387 would make it illegal to possess Eurasian wild boars in captivity. Currently, possession of wild boars for commercial purposes, like hunting, is only allowed with a permit from the ...

The wild ones are often called feral swine, wild boars, wild hogs or razorbacks. But it’s not just wild pigs moving in from other places that worry agriculture and wildlife experts in Minnesota.

House File 2387 would make it illegal to possess Eurasian wild boars in captivity. Currently, possession of wild boars for commercial purposes, like hunting, is only allowed with a permit from the ...