Probably been said before. Put a bounty on them like coyotes years ago up north. Use all the money they spend for surveys, tests, and the product and pay hunters. Me and my cousins made a pile of money on coyotes.

Seems pretty simple to this man.

That has always been my assertion too. Put a meaningful bounty on them and folks will start killing them left and right.

Trouble is....that would bring its own set of problems in the form of trespassers and likely would bring the Hog-Doggers out in full force (which are already a different kind of plague around here).

That's been done in a few counties in Texas a few times. Several years ago in Lee County (where I do most of my hunting) we'd give the hog tails to a neighbor who would freeze them until she had enough to make a trip worthwhile and then she'd cash them in. I knew second hand of some guys who worked at a livestock auction where there were lots of cattle and a lot of cattle feed strewn around. The hogs came in virtually every night. These guys reportedly made more money trapping the hogs (selling them to a live hog buyer) and collecting the bounty than they did working at the auction. Lee County ran out of bounty money before the middle of the year.

Hayes county has had bounties on hogs a few times also, although I don't hunt there as often. The problem has always been finding the money with which to pay the bounties. The city folk don't necessarily like their tax money going to help the people who live out of the city. It's sort of a "It ain't a problem for me …" mentality, and there are always road and drainage projects that require attention.