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Feral swine poised to run hog wild over landscape if not stopped soon Experts from other areas of the country warn that now is the time to act
Written by Lara Lutz   

Decades ago, an exotic menace with spores eliminated the region's most common tree, the American chestnut. Gypsy moths, a foreign species with wings, have hammered the watershed's oaks. More recently, the nonnative woolly adelgid, a tiny insect with a voracious appetite for hemlock sap, has killed huge numbers of these majestic evergreens and threatens their entire range.

Now comes an invasive species with hooves that threatens to rip up the mid-Atlantic's forests by their roots: wild hogs. read more


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