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"On The Trail Of The Wily Wild Hog"

"Andrew Herrington slips on a battered green backpack, stashes a .308 bolt-action rifle under his arm and steps off a boat onto the steep, rocky shores of Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

'It's about a half-mile that we're going to walk up to for those traps,' he says.

In almost every circumstance, hunting is strictly forbidden at national parks. But there's an exception to that rule. Herrington's job is to hunt at Great Smoky Mountains National Park for an invasive and hugely destructive species: feral hogs."

Nathan Rott reports for NPR's Morning Edition May 26, 2016.

Source: NPR, 05/27/2016