Sunklands Natural Area/Missouri Ozarks/Pic Heavy

As promised some random Missouri Hog areas....these particular ones are all in state parks where hunting is not allowed. These hogs may be a good enough reason to go purchase a BK9 (Becker content!).

The pic of the car is at Sam A Baker, where most of these pictures were taken. I snuck one of my wife in also along Taum Sauk Creek which is becoming polluted from the hogs.

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Wow. It's getting bad over there. I hate to see that because Sam A is a great park. We were over there not long after they opened the Mudlick trail and the rangers encouraged us to dayhike it. They said "you get a patch if you can dayhike the whole trail". Hahahaha, 15 miles and they give you a patch? We'll do it, but don't need a patch for a 15 mile hike. So we hit the trail at daylight (thank god) and drug our sore, completely beaten down asses back into camp at 9:30 that night. Next morning we limped in to the park office and got our patches. Framed them too....:D


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You'll notice that on the map you have a patch at the bottom that is pointing up towards the valley that is in the middle of the loop with a creek in it (along with a few farm ponds). That is where most of those pictures are taken.

I never did an overnight backpack until I was 35 years old, which is 10 years ago now. Most of the reason I started was what you described in your day long hike. Spend the night out and you can split your miles into two days. I get mad at myself sometimes wishing I would have started backpacking much younger. I'm more mad at the hogs....they are destroying some beautiful areas, especially the glades; if you get rid of the hogs, it will take a hundred years to return back to normal if not longer.
 
That's horrible about the damage the hogs are doing. We see it all over the place in MO. Between the hogs and the asian carp it's getting bad.
 
They sure do make a mess.

Luckily, no hogs yet over in my neck of the woods, but I would like to find a place to hunt some. I may have to check out some of these places.

Thanks for the pics.
 
SaturatedShadow...I'm sure you have some hogs somewhere in Southwest MO. I would look around at some of the National Forest. I've hiked everywhere in Missouri except the SW portion of the Mark Twain National Forest. Portions of NW Arkansas are ate up with them not to far from the Missouri border. In Missouri you can hunt the hogs without a hunting license. A little bit of fine print you need to read up on. Know the regs. The biggest part of it is if you are hunting hogs during firearms deer season, you need a deer tag also.

The pictures I have posted are in Missouri State Parks. Yes, you can hunt in the state park and you'll make a friend of "Bubba" who you'll meet at the jail when they lock you up!!

You ought to read up on the AR rules; maybe you don't need a permit down there either.

I think these pigs started out as a joke; folks dropping them off in the woods to get some recreation in. Now the jokes on them.
 
franzb69 said:
i don't understand why you can't hunt the pigs down. sorry not from a local so i don't get it.
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I think you just cant hunt them on State Parks. I know the MDC encourages hunters to shoot them when you see them.
 
franzb69...Missouri state parks do not allow hunting but we've got lots and lots of public land where you can hunt, the vast majority in the Mark twain National Forest. I think they have about 1.5 million acres spread over 30 counties. Then you have all of the Missouri Department of Conservation land that has close to 1 million acres (some of this they lease from others). State parks fall under the Missouri Department of Natural Resources where you pretty much can't hunt.

That's about 2.5 million acres that you can hunt although they have the usual areas that are off limits such as high traffic areas, campgrounds, historical sites, etc.
 
Man! The damage on those trees looks pretty crazy! Maybe it's from the two leged type? Some young bastids choping away with a dullass machete?
 
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