Feral Swine Hunting to Close in Butler County, Pennsylvania

By Vanessa Torres

Pennsylvania -(Ammoland.com)- When hunting hours close Saturday, hunters within Butler County no longer will be permitted to take feral swine.

Pennsylvania Game Commission Executive Director R. Matthew Hough has announced a temporary closure to feral swine hunting in Butler County, to become effective at the end of the hunting day on Saturday.

Feral swine are not native to Pennsylvania, but sometimes are found roaming freely on public and private lands. Because of the damage feral swine cause to the habitat upon which

Pennsylvania’s native wildlife depends, licensed hunters statewide are permitted to take any feral swine they might encounter.
However, the same executive order that permits hunters to take feral swine also gives the

Pennsylvania Game Commission authority to place a hold on the hunting of feral swine so as not to interfere with special trapping operations that typically are considered the most effective way to eradicate this nuisance animal species.

Hough has enacted this authority.

Trapping by authorized professionals only can occur from the end of the flintlock muzzleloader deer season to the start of spring turkey season, and from the close of the spring …Read the Rest

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