Miscellany

by Tom Dotson, Spring/Summer 2007 edition of West Virginia Wildlife

Wild boars are a poor pioneering species. Good boar habitat contains a high abundance of mast-producing trees, primarily mature oak forest …

Biologists hypothesize that the main reason for the decline of wild boar in Boone, Logan, Raleigh and Wyoming counties is habitat destruction ... Since the mid-1980s, mountaintop removal mining and logging have removed vast tracts of mast-producing trees ... much of the ideal oak forest habitat favored by the wild boar has disappeared …