{"id":4742,"date":"2011-09-05T07:09:39","date_gmt":"2011-09-05T11:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=4742"},"modified":"2011-09-05T09:16:58","modified_gmt":"2011-09-05T13:16:58","slug":"morning-read-does-the-north-countrys-next-invasive-species-have-tusks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2011\/09\/05\/morning-read-does-the-north-countrys-next-invasive-species-have-tusks\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Read:  Does the North Country&#8217;s next invasive species have tusks?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.adirondackdailyenterprise.com\/page\/content.detail\/id\/526403\/NY-may-act-so-feral-swine-don-t-go-hog-wild.html?nav=5008\">The Associated Press is reporting this holiday weekend<\/a> on worries in New York state that Russian wild boars could be the next foreign species to invade our forests.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div id=\"attachment_4745\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4745\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4745\" title=\"wildboar_300\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2011\/09\/wildboar_300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2011\/09\/wildboar_300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2011\/09\/wildboar_300-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4745\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wild boar. Photo: Wikipedia<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Wild pigs are intelligent and adaptable, eating almost anything and  able to live in a wide range of habitats. They dig up cropland and  lawns. They damage ecosystems by rooting and digging for food and  devouring roots, stems, leaves, fruit, nuts, bark, bird eggs, mice,  snakes and fawns.<\/p>\n<p>They compete with native wildlife for food such as  acorns, carry diseases that can be transferred to wildlife, and destroy  wetlands with their wallowing.<\/p>\n<p>Feral swine multiply rapidly, with  sows producing several litters a year of four to six piglets, so as with  any invasive species, it&#8217;s crucial to mount aggressive eradication  efforts before the population is widely established, [Gordon Batcheller, head of the state Department of Environmental Conservation&#8217;s Bureau of Wildlife]\u00a0 said.  They&#8217;re also wily and secretive, and become even more so when people try  to shoot or trap them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yikes.\u00a0 Makes zebra mussels and Eurasian watermilfoil sound kind of tame.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Associated Press is reporting this holiday weekend on worries in New York state that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[884],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4742"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4742"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4743,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4742\/revisions\/4743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}