A bill making its way through the California Legislature would make it easier for landowners and hunters to kill wild pigs doing damage to agricultural lands. Yet hunting associations are lining up to ...

A feral hog stands in a New York holding pen in 2011. A California state senator introduced a bill intended to cull the population of feral hogs — by making it easier to hunt them. Mike Groll The ...

North America’s first swine arrived in Florida with Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto in 1539. He brought thirteen, and within three years there were seven hundred. Fast-forward almost five centuries ...

Here’s the thing about wild hogs in the U.S.: they aren’t just a nuisance. These invasive animals tear up crops, pastureland, and sensitive habitats, and they’ve spread into dozens of states with real ...