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USDA outlines feral swine trapping, warns of disease and funding shortfalls
Summary
USDA Wildlife Services briefed mayors on feral pig threats, trapping methods and disease risks and asked the Mayor’s Council to consider a unified funding request after federal territory funding proved insufficient.
Chad Richardson, who supervises the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Wildlife Services feral swine program on Guam, told the Mayor’s Council of Guam on Feb. 5 that feral pigs pose collision, disease and property risks and that the federal and local program funding is insufficient to meet demand.
Richardson described modern corral traps that capture entire sounders and remote-monitoring systems that allow the team to close traps quickly and remove large numbers of pigs. “A pig is a pig is a pig,” Richardson said, summarizing his more than two decades of experience with swine…
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