Feral pigs are going “hog wild” across the San Francisco Bay Area—and wildlife officials are ramping up their efforts to stop the destructive creatures.
Wild pigs are nothing new in the Golden State. However, land managers say they are becoming more problematic this year, likely because the state has had three wet winters in a row, which created an abundance of food for the non-native animals, reports KGO-TV’s Leslie Brinkley.
“We’ve seen the impacts increasing,” says Doug Bell, wildlife program manager at the East Bay Regional Park District in Oakland, to the Mercury News’ Paul Rogers. And the animals’ population seems to be growing, too…