baiting illegal for hog hunting in CA?

[spectr17]

There were many animal species here hundreds of years ago that are not here now. "Native species" means in modern history. The turkeys that are here now were imported from the southeastern US. The first attempts to introduce them was in 1877. Cal DFG started the first successful program to introduce them in 1960.

Actually, the wild turkey history is a bit different. European explorers took wild turkeys to Europe from Mexico in the early 1500s. They were so successfully domesticated in Europe that English colonists brought them back with them when they settled on the Atlantic Coast. Also the turkeys we have here are from all over the USA, not just the SE. The Merriams that were transplanted in CA came from SD for example.

http://www.wildturkeyzone.com/wildturkey/species.htm

http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Wild_Turkey/lifehistory

"Native species" also does not require a certain time frame, if the species was there with no aid from man it's considered "native". Even the antihunter and Native Plant Society wackos recognize that there were native turkeys here many centuries ago, in their eyes they were different strain though than what we have today.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_species

[a1c]

Ha. There is a reason I don't pick up the walnuts in my orchard. I know the pigs will show up once the pears and acorns are all gone.

(Seriously though - I just have way too much walnuts to begin with.)

But yes, baiting is not only illegal in California, but it's ethically wrong, even for an invasive species like pigs. I mean, think about it. It's not an endemic species. So why baiting them in the first place? That's just lazy.

[mkane]

Pigs, we do what it takes.

[TrailerparkTrash]

There's turkey bones in the La Brea Tar Pits here in SoCal.

Negative! Somebody tossed a bucket of KFC over the fence and into those pits! The dang scientists there just thought those "small" chicken bones were just juvenile turkey bones!