Feral swine damage native habitats. The animal’s rooting activities allow invasive plants to re-vegetate damaged areas, reducing native plants and grasses and rubbing on trees, fence posts, and telephone poles can lead to the death of the trees and substantial property damage. Photo by USDA APHIS.
September 8, 2019
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Feral hogs encroaching on Montana-Canada border
Looming among our neighbors to the north is an invasive species Montana experts say would cause extensive environmental degradation to the Big Sky state, should they ever successfully saunter across the border.