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Bill to Help Manage Feral Hog Population Sent to Governor
Tue, 23 Apr 2013 14:52:17 CDT
Legislation sent to Gov. Mary Fallin will provide landowners with a tool to help manage the feral hog population in Oklahoma, according to the bill's author.
House Bill 1920, by state Rep. Dustin Roberts and state Sen. Mark Allen, provides a permit for individuals to conduct aerial hunting on private land to shoot feral hogs, coyotes or coyote-dog crossbreeds. The permit holder must either be a commercial big game license holder, a landowner hunting on his own land or a contracted aerial hunter who will be hunting only on the land of the individual he is contracting with.
"The concerns we had with this legislation were about the safety of the public that might be down on the ground and so we made sure to set limits on where the hunting could take place," said Roberts, R-Durant. "The feral hog population is a menace in Oklahoma and I think we need to continue to look at what tools we can provide to help contain it. It is a concern I hear constantly about from rural Oklahomans."
"This legislation will help our farmers and ranchers tremendously," said Allen, R-Spiro. "The feral hog population in a constant concern in rural Oklahoma, and this bill will help save money on equipment repair and time lost for repairing the land."
If signed into law, House Bill 1920 will take effect Nov. 1.
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