>>1910320Unfortunately, this just keeps the problem into perpetuity. Here in Missouri they've completely banned individuals from taking pigs, since people will kill one or two and the rest will scatter further through the state. Plus there's speculation that part of the reason they blew up here is people raising them and releasing them on public land so they can hunt them for sport. Putting a bounty on heads just incentivizes more breeding of the bastards. "What you subsidize, you get more of."
I think bounties work in general for predators like wolves or bears, but with animals that can be raised on farms, they just become a handout. Here's what Missouri's Dept of Conservation has to say about the situation:
>When hunters shoot feral hogs, it complicates efforts to remove these pests. Hogs are social animals that travel in groups called sounders. Shooting one or two hogs scatters the sounder and makes trapping efforts aimed at catching the entire group at once more difficult, because hogs become trap-shy and more wary of baited sites. With their high reproductive rate, removing one or two hogs does not help to reduce populations. Anyone who observes a feral hog or damage caused by feral hogs should report it to the Conservation Department rather than shooting the animal so we can work together towards eradication.>Feral hogs have been roaming some Missouri counties since the days of open range. The situation took a wrong turn in the 1990s when hog hunting for recreation began to gain popularity. Groups began raising and promoting European wild boar as a form of alternative agriculture and for hunting on captive facilities. It wasn't long before many of these hogs escaped or were released intentionally on public land. 
