Feral Pigs; NRIC, Australia

The Australian National Resource Information Centre makes available five data sets on the Feral pig management project: 1080 poisoning for feral pig control - a quantitative measure of 1080 poison usage for feral pig control in pasture protection areas in New South Wales and Queensland over the the period of 1985-1988 inclusive. Feral pig density - qualitative estimates (absent, low, medium, high) of feral pig density in Queensland and New South Wales, Australia Commercial feral pig industry survey statistics - pigs harvested, 1985-87, harvesting effort, and catch per unit effort. Feral pig control officer survey statistics - survey information on crop damage, lamb predation, control effort, cost of pig damage, etc. for all rural lands protection boards in New South Wales and Queensland Recreational hunter survey statistics The data is 2.7 megabytes and is made available in ArcInfor EXPORT format on magnetic disk.