You think Texas has wild-hog problems?

At least they’re not on Dallas streets or tearing up Valley Ranch for the Cowboys

Wild hogs are, though, doing the equivalent of that in Berlin. More than 200 have been killed in auto accidents there in the last eight months, even as they dig up lawns, parks , and soccer fields with their snouts.

The city of Berlin has commissioned urban hunters, but they’re facing problems.

Many Green-ish people in Berlin are so Green, or green, as to assault hunters trying to do their work. Some are even feeding the hogs.

And, wild hogs are smart enough that they’re starting to figure out hunters’ patterns, such as hunters being restricted on what shots they can take in urban areas.

That said, if you haven’t had wild hog, it’s relatively lean and healthy compared to a grain-fed domestic porker, and, depending on what it’s eaten, can have a more complex and pleasant taste than “Wilbur.”

That’s assuming you’re eating a young sow and not an old boar.

Anyway, the full story is worth a good read.

Extension Service, or freelancer, needs to learn some math on wild hogs

Just got a Far South Lancaster press release that says, amongst other things:

Texas Cooperative Extension estimated in 2004 that the population of wild hogs in Texas was between 1.5 and 2 million. If there were 2 million hogs in 2004, and that number has possibly doubled three times a year for the last three years, it could mean, well, a whole lot of hogs.

If this were true exactly 2 years ago, we would have just had our seventh doubling. Well, 2 to the seventh power is 128. Multiply that by 2 million.

I'm sorry, but Texas does NOT have 250 million wild hogs.

This is a clear example of numeric illiteracy.