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Winds of Change Newsletter, September 2007 See sidebar for table of contents
Miscellany
Why Are Wild Boar Declining?
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
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