There was a European Boar preserve located in the Catskills of upstate New York that had some fencing issues that they never fixed. I guess this went on for years.
So there is a wild pig problem that started to catch fire, not as bad as Texas or Georgia but it was becoming noticeable with many sighting of pigs across several counties. I guess some crop damage as well.
Many of us were hoping for a feral pig season or perhaps an open season on feral pigs. Our boys in green at the DEC decided to make it illegal to shoot any feral pig in NY. Their reasoning was that once pigs were shot at, their colony would break up and then spread faster and create more colonies, exacerbating the problem.
I think that pigs are still getting shot but no one hears much about them anymore.
Dan