Last issues story regarding warafin has generated the most controversy since the OAEN has first been published. Good points were raised on all sides.
TEXAS HUNTERS ARE ON THE SAME SIDE AS LANDOWNERS. Let's not let those with partisan economic interest pit us against each other.
THE AUTHOR WARNED ABOUT THIS IMPENDING WILD HOG CRISIS FOR THE LAST TEN YEARS. EVENTUALLY SOMEONE IS GOING TO BE KILLED BY A WILD HOG. Not to mention property damage and fatalities from vehicle hog collisions.
I am absolutely on the side of the landowners in wanting eradication of wild hogs.
March 2nd Texas Courts issued an injunction against the rule allowing use of warfarin poison on wild hogs.
Quoting: "This afternoon, State District Judge Jan Soifer issued a temporary restraining order enjoining Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller and the Texas Department of Agriculture from implementing the “emergency rule” that they had issued to try to facilitate the use of rat poison across Texas lands for feral hogs. Specifically, Judge Soifer’s Order stated in part that Defendants Sid Miller and the Department “did not follow the requirements of the Texas Administrative Procedure Act . . . and so therefore the rule is invalid.”
So as of now things are on hold.
In Texas we have long trusted that some "magic" chemical is going to solve all of our ranch problems. How many times have we been burned? Who bears the liability if it doesn't work as represented? The chemical company is in and out of the market leaving Texas landowners with the consequences.
Let the free enterprise system work. Bounties have had a long successful career in Texas eliminating problem animals.