Trapping of wild hogs has been used to reduce populations and associated damage in some areas and supplement hog populations for harvest in others.
Rooting by wild hogs can lead to erosion and water quality problems, and the destruction of native vegetation around ponds and in the forest.
Florida’s wild hog population is second only to Texas’s; the state is estimated to have more than 500,000 wild hogs in a relatively stable population (there are from 1 to 2 million wild hogs in the southeastern United States).
