David Rainer: Forever Wild Board commits to feral hog mitigation

As the Forever Wild Land Trust is preparing for its first meeting of the year Feb. 1 in Montgomery, the FWLT Board of Trustees will be focused on an initiative adopted at its last meeting of 2023 to spend up to $1 million to enhance existing efforts to mitigate the impact of feral hog populations. Many landowners in Alabama and other states in the Southeast will testify about their struggle with ongoing issues related to feral swine populations. These nuisance feral swine populations can be found in all 67 counties in Alabama. The Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources’ State