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Going
Whole Hog
for Conservation
Mississippi Wild Hog Control Program Expands, Launches Nation’s First-Ever FFA-based Youth Trapping Corps By Will Graves Images of animal trappers stealthily navigating the forest might evoke childhood memories of fabled tales of mountain people and folklore of early expeditions on the American Frontier. In 22 CONNECTIONS Fall 2023
the 18th- and 19th-centuries, trapping and trading fur paved the way for westward expansion and began to chart the expansive North American wilderness. Though times have changed and technology has progressed in the area of wildlife and land management, the
tradition of animal trapping is on the rise nationwide — this time in the name of conservation. Mississippi is now stepping up as an innovative leader in tackling the evergrowing, costly feral hog problem that plagues both wild and agricultural lands
