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Article: Pennsylvania Game Commission Retains Restriction on Taking Feral Swine in Bedford County.
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- Agriculture Week
- Article date:
- July 2, 2009
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Pennsylvania Game Commission Executive Director Carl G. Roe announced that he was retaining protection on feral swine in Bedford County in an effort to facilitate trapping by individuals permitted by the agency and the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Roe did, however, lift the protection in Bradford, Fulton, Susquehanna and Wyoming counties. Under the executive order, issued in May of 2008, protection remains lifted on feral swine in the remaining 62 counties.
"This decision to lift protection in these four counties is based on a lack of recent reports of feral swine in these areas," Roe said. "Also, we have not identified opportunities for trapping in these ...