{"id":6141,"date":"2012-06-18T05:54:46","date_gmt":"2012-06-18T09:54:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=6141"},"modified":"2012-06-18T15:29:10","modified_gmt":"2012-06-18T19:29:10","slug":"morning-read-wild-hog-fight-continues-in-clinton-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2012\/06\/18\/morning-read-wild-hog-fight-continues-in-clinton-county\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Read:  Wild hog fight continues in Clinton County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pressrepublican.com\/0100_news\/x86298443\/Efforts-to-eradicate-wild-hogs-continue\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2012\/06\/feralpigdec3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-6142\" title=\"P008-256-256-256-35h-003-09-0360-1080-0359-1079\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2012\/06\/feralpigdec3-300x194.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2012\/06\/feralpigdec3-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2012\/06\/feralpigdec3-150x97.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2012\/06\/feralpigdec3-450x292.jpg 450w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2012\/06\/feralpigdec3.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The Plattsburgh Press Republican is reporting this morning that state environment officials are still trying to contain an outbreak of destructive feral hogs around the town of Peru, on the fringe of the Adirondack Park.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cDEC is continuing trapping efforts for feral pigs on a number of  parcels of land in southern Clinton County,\u201d said David Winchell,  spokesperson for DEC Region 5 at Ray Brook.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA number of feral pigs have  been captured in the past few weeks, including a larger mature male, a  lactating female and piglets.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ray Brook recently received a  report that a local resident had shot a feral sow that was or had  recently been lactating, Winchell added.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Conservation Department is discouraging hunting of the animals, because they&#8217;re afraid that it could cause them to scatter.\u00a0 The presence of lactating females and piglets is a concern because feral hogs can reproduce and grow their numbers rapidly.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pressrepublican.com\/0100_news\/x86298443\/Efforts-to-eradicate-wild-hogs-continue\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Plattsburgh Press Republican is reporting this morning that state environment officials are still trying [&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":[22,4839,877,884,6582],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6141"}],"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=6141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6149,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6141\/revisions\/6149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}