Wild hogs invade King City’s San Lorenzo County Park
Wild hogs are going “hog wild” in Monterey County.
“As you get closer, there is that ‘oh my god’ factor,” says Jessica Potts. Potts is the Executive Director of the Monterey County Agricultural and Rural Life Museum, located inside San Lorenzo County Park – right next to where these hogs are digging up the grass fields.
Potts says this isn’t the first time the feral pigs have reared their heads in the King City park. But, in her many years there, this is the worst she’s ever seen.
NATS “They just put their nose under the grass and it rolls.”
“Over the course of the last couple weeks, every day you come out here, there’s new patches. Bigger, deeper, wider.”
They are believed to have come down from the hills, crossing the low-leveled river at night, looking for food underground.
The Monterey County Parks Department has been putting in cages, with food as bait, to try and capture, then relocated, the hogs.
They tell KION there is some re-seeding work happening now to clean the mess in King City. This is work already in progress at Toro County Park, outside Salinas.
Brett Fulgoni, the county’s parks department acting operations manager, says “this year was particularly bad. We’re not sure if it’s a population increase. But we got hit very hard.”
The Toro County Park invasion happened over the past month. Monterey County Parks had to completely rip up the old grass, and start new. Both of these projects are cost an estimated couple thousand dollars.
So far they have caught a few of the eight wild hogs seen at Toro County Park, and trapped four more in King City.
If you do happen to see one of these animals, they can be dangerous, so, stay away and tell a staff member at the park.
KION has been told the park’s department is not aware of any run-ins between the hogs and people.
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