Originally Posted By: Yellowhammer
Home Range and Habitat Use of Feral Hogs in Alabama
You have to consider that some of the findings in this study are somewhat skewed if you compare hog behavioral influences on private land as apposed to a WMA.
1. Most hunters on WMA property are hunting other game besides hogs and shoot hogs as targets of opportunity, however their presence in the woods could still have the same pressuring effect.
2. Depending on the state, they may or may not allow the use food plots.
3. There are generally more hunters and hunter activity in the woods on a WMA than you would normally see on private property.
4. Unless the WMA borders ag land there is no way to gauge hog behavior as it relates to hogs feeding on crops and how it affects the size of their range.
5. Most all WMA management will NOT allow night hunting so the hogs recognize this just like the deer. The deer go nocturnal very quickly.
6. Hogs have no physiological mechanism to deal with heat other than evaporative cooling by water therefore ambient temperatures can affect hog activity as it relates to nocturnal vs day feeding cycles. (applicable to WMA and private land)
