SHREVEPORT, La. — Caddo Parish leaders sounded an alarm this week over what they describe as a rapidly worsening wild hog invasion now impacting neighborhoods from one end of the parish to the other.

Dan Burton has trapped hundreds of wild pigs for clients of his wildlife control company in Salinas, but even he was startled when he cut one of them open and found blue meat inside. "I'm not talking ...

A herd of wild hogs (feral pigs) of all ages, rooting in the forest, after sunset© Slatan/Shutterstock.com Feral pigs cost the United States upwards of $1.6 billion each year. Farmers have stopped ...