Monday, December 10, 2007

Beach Boars Thriving

Monday, December 10, 2007
By RYAN DEZEMBER
Staff Reporter

ORANGE BEACH -- Motion-sensing trail cameras have snapped mugshots of a wide variety of fauna along the city's 10-mile Backcountry Trail, from bobcats to deer, coyotes and even curious hikers.

But lately another species has made the shutters click with increasing frequency: feral swine.

"Anywhere you go in Baldwin County you're within a few miles of a population of wild hogs," said Kenneth Blalock with the Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources' Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries division.

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