No Hog Hunting in Kansas??? Any Kansas Hunters out there that can Confirm / Deny

[FarFromHome]

I was sent this article from the paper in a tiny town in Kansas where my wife grew up. It states that it is illegal to hunt hogs in Kansas. Is this true?

Council Grove Republican
Monday, march 26, 2007


STATE KILLS 257 WILD HOGS BUT ERADICATION UNLIKELY

STULL(AP) - - Aerial hunters approved by the state shot and killed 257 wild hogs in Kansas during a two-day hunt last week, but experts say the troublesome swine will continue to wreak havoc in the state.

An estimated 2,000 feral hogs make Kansas home, while Missouri might have as many as 10,000. Nationally, feral swine are estimated to number 4 million and cause nearly $1 billion in damage.

The hogs are blamed for stealing field crops, ruining wetlands and potentially spreading disease to livestock. And they have no natural predator, meaning they can reproduce with little or nothing to stop them.

Although many hunters would like to go after the hogs, the state of Kansas has banned such hunting, hoping to take away the incentive for people to release the hogs into the wild. But landowners say they are still constantly asked by hunters for permission to hunt the hogs.

Brenna Wulfkuhle, who raises cattle near Stull, said the hog hunters "don't get it". Hunting hogs only spreads them across the landscape, she said.

"The hogs tear up our pasture," she said. "And if we ever found a hog with foot-and-mouth disease, there'll be a quarantine of everything around here."

[thehairlessone!]

It is true. I live in Kansas. It sounds like people can still go in and kill them just to kill them but there isnt supposed to be any hunting of them.


rick

[KSHogman]

Yes it's true .

[Bluesman]

No general hunting allowed. A landowner or his agent can kill them but not for sport hunting.
Friends in my SE Kansas hometown have been seeing them more often.

[KSHogman]

We don't get it ?? let me ask this guestion has there ever been a case of wild hog spreading any kind of Disease? not that I ever heard, just farm pen raise live stock were people feed them bone meal or what ever else that was bio crap they make in labs !!!!

[kellyg]

When do ya think they'll figure out that now that they've got hogs, they're gonna have hogs from now on?

[BigPigSticker]

No general hunting allowed. A landowner or his agent can kill them but not for sport hunting.
Friends in my SE Kansas hometown have been seeing them more often.

I had some friends down from Ellsworth Kansas about 3 weeks ago hog hunting on my place and they told me the same thing that is quoted above.

[Bluesman]

The thought is to rule out importing hogs into the State for use by hunting preserves where they will escape into the wild. I can't find the article.
Here's another: http://www.fstribune.com/story/1194722.html

[Cropduster]

Give them time, just give them time. It will take place or they will be knee deep in hogs.

[FarFromHome]

This mentality just is not going to work. If they are trying to get folks to not import them they should ban the possibility of people charging to hunt them. if there is no money in it, people will not import them or work to keep a sustainable herd, but for goodness sakes let hunters kill the ones that are there. \

They will find out in due time what happens if they don't let someone kill them. They have a rathe coming that only a mad woman and tornados can compare.

[Bluesman]

This mentality just is not going to work. If they are trying to get folks to not import them they should ban the possibility of people charging to hunt them. if there is no money in it, people will not import them or work to keep a sustainable herd, but for goodness sakes let hunters kill the ones that are there. \

They will find out in due time what happens if they don't let someone kill them. They have a rathe coming that only a mad woman and tornados can compare.

Agreed. I e-mailed my buddies up there all of the hog hunting web sites and trap plans I could find. The current law isn't taken too seriously. I don't think

[mesquitecountry]

they'll change their minds when hogs are krapping on the governor's mansion lawn.

[Aghntr98]

True - it's too late for this in Kansas b/c the hogs have already been imported and they are a reality.

I know a conservation officer in Nebraska pretty well - where the legislature outlawed hog hunting before the pigs got there, and it seems to be working well.

The problem was a few idiots who decided that us folks down south make a lot of money on hog hunts and imported a bunch of feral hogs to Kansas and/or started raising hogs to release. The results were obvious (but apparently not to those guys). The pigs started destroying everything.

In Nebraska, I believe they've found one or two family groups in the southern part of the state and have eradicated them. They trap them, kill all but one, put a radio collar on the one that's left, and he leads them back to the rest of the family group.

Only state officers can kill hogs in Nebraska. Thus, there's no financial incentive to develop a population. This seems to be working so far, but it's probably just a matter of time...

[BentBow]

Brenna Wulfkuhle, who raises cattle near Stull, Kansas... Is an idiot!

Letting them breed at rapid numbers, seems to be spreading them all on their own. Hunting, spreads them out into the landscape... LOL!!!!!!!!!!! Ya, every hog I hunted ran out into the pasture, when they sensed my presents.. LOL!