"Feral Canadian hogs encroaching on Montana border"

As we've said before: "Canada, a false bacon of hope, eh"
From the Associated Press:

KALISPELL, Mont. (AP) — Wildlife officials say feral hogs from Canada encroaching on Montana’s northern border are a serious concern for farmers and others.

Daily Inter Lake reported Sunday that the U.S. agriculture department’s Wildlife Services division says there have been multiple reports of feral hogs near the border.

An official says eight mature pigs were discovered in Canada directly above Montana’s Lincoln County this summer.

Wildlife Services, the Montana Invasive Species Council, the National Feral Swine Program, and the Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks department say the pigs could do widespread damage.

Officials say the pigs are “rototillers” that root for food and wallow in farms, fields and forests, leaving terrain unrecognizable....

Related at the AP:
Vermont farmer told to round up his escaped pigs _ or else

And that's it for northern border states' porker problems at the AP.

There sure seem to be a lot of feral pig stories in both Europe and the U.S.
Here's Washingtonian Magazine last month:

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