The wildlife you see on your next hiking trip? The rustle in your backyard at night? It might not be a raccoon or a deer. A steady increase in the population of wild pigs — a marauding, non-native ...

Feral pigs are going “hog wild” across the San Francisco Bay Area—and wildlife officials are ramping up their efforts to stop the destructive creatures. Wild pigs are nothing new in the Golden State.

Moore Creek Park near Lake Hennessey faces the challenge of keeping the wild hog population from going hog wild, with the health of its ecosystem at stake. The beasts are a formidable adversary, ...

Dan Burton has trapped hundreds of wild pigs for clients of his wildlife control company in Salinas, but even he was startled when he cut one of them open and found blue meat inside. “I’m not talking ...

For years on the Big Island, Amedeo Markoff and his son, Jacob, have trapped wild pigs for the tasty meat, which is eaten by ...