Department of Forestry, Wildlife, & Fisheries, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA 37996.
USDOI National Park Service, Olympic National Park, Port Angeles, WA, USA.
J Environ Manage. 2019 Feb 15;232:722-728. doi: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2018.11.075. Epub 2018 Dec 4.
Wild hogs (Sus scrofa) are an invasive, non-native species quickly gaining ground on private, as well as public, lands in Tennessee and much of the United States. Wildlife management personnel may benefit from assessing stakeholders' views towards various management options to control and eradicate wild hogs. A statewide mail survey of 5000 randomly selected landowners in Tennessee counties known to have wild hogs yielded 1620 completed responses (33% response rate). Using this dataset, an index of potential for conflict among landowner groups was computed for each of eleven management options, which varied from leaving the wild hogs alone, to both lethal and non-lethal options. Results indicate varying levels of potential for conflict depending on hunter status, wild hog hunter status, presence of wild hogs on land, percent of income derived from land, and amount of land damage caused by wild hogs. Overall, three management options including leaving the wild hogs alone, allowing sale of wild hogs, and capturing and relocating were found unacceptable whereas many other options including capturing and killing, providing technical assistance to landowners and educating people on preventing damage were found to have high level of acceptability and most consensus among landowner subgroups. Findings will be useful in understanding how support for wild hog control options vary across population segments, and which options are likely to see more or less resistance from certain landowners.
野猪（Sus scrofa）是一种入侵性的非本地物种，在美国田纳西州和许多其他州的私人和公共土地上迅速蔓延。野生动物管理人员可能会受益于评估利益相关者对各种管理选项的看法，以控制和根除野猪。对田纳西州已知有野猪的县的 5000 名随机选择的土地所有者进行了全州邮件调查，共收到 1620 份完整回复（回复率为 33%）。使用这个数据集，为十一种管理选项中的每一种计算了土地所有者群体之间潜在冲突的指数，这些选项从放任野猪不管到致死和非致死选项不等。结果表明，潜在冲突的程度因猎人身份、野猪猎人身份、土地上野猪的存在、土地收入的百分比以及野猪造成的土地损失量而异。总体而言，有三种管理选项包括放任野猪不管、允许出售野猪以及捕捉和转移被发现是不可接受的，而许多其他选项包括捕捉和杀死、向土地所有者提供技术援助以及教育人们防止损害的选项则被发现具有较高的可接受性和大多数土地所有者亚组之间的共识。这些发现将有助于了解对野猪控制选项的支持如何因人口群体而异，以及哪些选项可能会受到某些土地所有者的更多或更少的抵制。
