I suppose it’s not really news that BLM officials have been trapping wild hogs off of Fort Ord.  I tried a couple of years back to get some information about the possibility of opening some of the Fort up for hunters, but never got a reply.  Well, from the looks of things, it’s too late now…

Officials have success trapping wild pigs on Fort Ord

By LARRY PARSONS – Monterey County Herald

Posted: 02/28/2010 01:30:21 AM PST

The real battle began in 2006, after federal land managers for thousands of acres of Fort Ord back country realized wild pigs had invaded their space.

Since then, the Bureau of Land Management, employing a trapping program so as not to spook the feral pigs deep into hiding, have rooted out more than 100 of the animals, whittling their numbers down to about five to 10.

“They are getting harder and harder to get,” said BLM botanist Bruce Delgado, who oversees efforts to rid the bureau’s natural resource lands at the former Army base of the critters.

You can read the full article here, in the Santa Cruz Sentinel. 

I wonder how long that investment will last?  Anyone taking odds on when the hogs will be back?