personally I think the best option to curb these things is offer a bounty on them
just think about how much damage they do in costs< and then studies done on HOW to thin them and blah blah blah

Start putting a bounty on there heads and I bet a LOT more get killed than any other way
the states that require lic's will MAKE money selling lic's
residents will benefit from less damages, insurance company's too will benefit!

if you follow history, when they put a price tag on animals, they tend to get killed by more than just hunters wanting a meal!
heck a bounty on things has almost put many species on the endangered species list>

I know I'd be a lot more willing to travel to a state to hunt things I could get paid for doing> LOL
food banks I bet could handle SOME of them and still get good use out of the hunts too!

or maybe like with gators, the kills can be SOLD and generate some income that way too!

seems to me like a huge way to make a lot of folks some cash, in an economy that really isn;t the best?

I know a ton of rappers back yrs ago, that trapped due to the MONEY< when the prices dropped, most quit trapping !

Money, it gets folks interested, both good and bad

but hogs are getting to be a HUGE problems costing a LOT of money??
moneys getting spent one way or another, bounty's on there heads kills more!