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Forest Service decision on feral hog hunting prompts major change in MDC policy

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It's a compromise of sorts.

After getting more than 1,000 comments about feral hog hunting in Mark Twain National Forest, the U.S. Forest Service has decided to ban feral hog hunting there — but with a major exception.

Instead of banning hog hunting entirely, the Forest Service said it will allow turkey and deer hunters with proper deer and turkey permits the opportunity to kill feral hogs they come across incidentally while hunting.

Feral hog hunting has been legal in the Mark Twain National Forest, but for almost a year the Forest Service has weighed whether to ban hog hunting outright on forest land, which covers about 1.