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Cedar Valley Preserve in Wisconsin AND Wild Hogs Invading Southern States

We are glad to welcome back Jeff Maier.  Jeff and his family own and run the
Cedar Valley Lodge & Hunt Club in Spring Green, WI,the Midwest’s most complete, upscale lodge and hunt club.

Nestled in the wooded hills of Spring Green, Wisconsin, Cedar Valley Preserve claims 500 acres of unglaciated countryside bordering the Lower Wisconsin State Riverway. This driftless fortress unveils a landscape of rolling hills, rugged sandstone bluffs, rock ravines and open fields offering both beautiful scenery and a bounty of recreation.

Jeff will be talking about the fall opening of their lodge for pheasant & upland birds hunting.

We are proud to have  Cedar Valley as a long-time sponsor of Ultimate Outdoors Radio!

And we are glad to welcome back Nick Miller with Vortex Optics.  This week Nick is going to talk about the out of control population of feral / wild hogs in Texas and ways in which Texas has been trying to deal with the problems, even helicopters!

Quoted from the Smithsonian Magazine:  “Now numbering in the millions, these shockingly destructive and invasive wild hogs wreak havoc across the southern United States. 

Wild hogs are among the most destructive invasive species in the United States today. Two million to six million of the animals are wreaking havoc in at least 39 states and four Canadian provinces; half are in Texas, where they do some $400 million in damages annually. They tear up recreational areas, occasionally even terrorizing tourists in state and national parks, and squeeze out other wildlife.

Texas allows hunters to kill wild hogs year-round without limits or capture them alive to take to slaughterhouses to be processed and sold to restaurants as exotic meat. Thousands more are shot from helicopters. The goal is not eradication, which few believe possible, but control.”

We are proud to have Vortex Optics as a long-time sponsor of Ultimate Outdoors Radio!