Monday, January 04, 2016

TX: War against feral hogs rages on

On a recent Saturday morning, in a gravel parking lot under a highway overpass, Nick Dornak manned a foldout table and waited for drivers to roll by.

Dornak wasn’t a kid selling lemonade. He was an ecologist collecting pig tails.

 The Caldwell County Feral Hog Task Force, a volunteer group Dornak started two years ago, is now at the forefront of the state’s patchwork effort to control the wild swine population boom that is hurting farmers, frustrating hunters and poisoning the water in some beloved Central Texas streams and creeks.

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