![]() ![]() Speaker: Chris Watts is the Wildlife Damage Management Biologist in the College Station district office of the USDA - Texas A&M AgriLife Extension – Texas Wildlife Services Program. Chris Watts will walk through the history of invasive feral swine in Texas, their ecological and economic impacts, wildlife-human interactions, and urban feral swine management practices and strategies including IPM (Integrated Pest Management). They’re also remarkably adaptable, as more and more residents of urban environments are realizing. The secret to their success is multi-fold: highly intelligent, impressively fecund, and lacking in natural predators. Over the ensuing 300+ years they have expanded to become one of the most destructive invasive species in the State, wreaking ecological havoc, destroying crops and lawns, and costing the State some $400 million in damages annually. ![]() ![]() Topic: Feral swine (Sus scrofa) were likely first introduced to Texas by Spanish explorers in the 1600’s. Going GREEN Lecture: Feral Swine: Challenges and Control ![]()
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