{"id":31195,"date":"2014-06-09T22:12:44","date_gmt":"2014-06-10T02:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=31195"},"modified":"2014-06-09T22:12:44","modified_gmt":"2014-06-10T02:12:44","slug":"lee-county-asks-hunters-for-help-reduce-the-wild-hog-population","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2014\/06\/lee-county-asks-hunters-for-help-reduce-the-wild-hog-population\/","title":{"rendered":"Lee County Asks Hunters For <br>Help Reduce The Wild Hog Population"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-31196\" title=\"feral-hogs1\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/feral-hogs1-300x166.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"166\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/feral-hogs1-300x166.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/feral-hogs1.jpg 611w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Wild hogs are multiplying faster than trappers can keep up, so Lee County leaders are asking hunters for help in managing the growing population.<\/p>\n<p>County leaders are asking for proposals from professional hunters and trappers to take guns on county-owned 2020 Conservation land and shoot the feral pigs, since trapping the hogs isn\u2019t working.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->&#8220;They eat ground nesting birds, they disrupt the soil, which allows non-native invasive plants species to root and they&#8217;re a really destructive animal,&#8221; said Cathy Olson, the Lee County Conservation Lands manager.<\/p>\n<p>The hunters will focus on rural land in eastern Lee County<\/p>\n<p>Olson and other county experts are hosting an informational meeting about this hog hunt July 29 at 5:30 pm at Terry Park in Fort Myers, 3410 Palm Beach Blvd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wild hogs are multiplying faster than trappers can keep up, so Lee County leaders are asking hunters for help in managing the growing population. County leaders are asking for proposals&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31195"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}