Background: Battle to Control Feral Hogs

 

Feral hogs, believed to have been released in Florida by Spanish explorers are prolific breeders and now pose serious problems for other flora and fauna over vast areas of public and private land in the Southeast. Besides trail damage, hogs affect ground nesting birds, tortoise habitat, compete for food with native species like turkey and deer, eat turtle and snake eggs, trample and wallow in sensitive wetlands, destabilize the soil, degrading water quality and disrupting drainage patterns. Learn more at My Florida Wildlife Commission and at IFAS.

Public lands  may use trapping to reduce their numbers especially in wilderness areas where use of dogs and vehicles might disrupt or destroy natural habitats for endangered plant and animal species. 

President:

Linda@carltonreserve.org

 

Treasurer:

Dan@carltonreserve.org

 

Website & Info:

Sherm@carltonreserve.org

  

Park Naturalist

Meghan Harris Meyer 

mmmeyer@scgov.net

  

Anyplace America.com

Link to searchable U.S. map resources with parks, trails, campgrounds, historical sites, marinas, etc.

 

 

Sarasota County

Field Guide

to Conservation Lands

(download 64pp. PDF)

Field Guide.pdf
Adobe Acrobat Document 3.8 MB

SARASOTA WEATHER

 

Friends of Carlton Reserve

is a chapter of  FOSCP   

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