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Article: Pennsylvania Game Commission Restricts Take of Feral Swine in Five Counties
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- U.S. Newswire
- Article date:
- January 23, 2009
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To: STATE EDITORS
Contact: Jerry Feaser of the Pennsylvania Game Commission, +1-
717-705-6541
HARRISBURG, Pa., Jan. 23 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Pennsylvania
Game Commission Executive Director Carl G. Roe today announced that
he was reinstating protection on feral swine in Bradford, Bedford,
Fulton, Susquehanna and Wyoming counties in an effort to facilitate
trapping by individuals permitted by the agency and the U.S.
Department of Agriculture. Under the executive order, issued in May
of 2008, protection remains lifted on feral swine in the remaining
62 counties.
"Trapping is the most effective way to remove feral swine from
the wild, because it limits their dispersal into new areas," Roe ...