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Ryan Sabalow

Why are California's hunting groups against a bill that makes it easier to kill wild pigs?

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A bill making its way through the California Legislature would make it easier for landowners and hunters to kill wild pigs doing damage to agricultural lands.

Yet hunting associations are lining up to fight Senate Bill 856, authored by Bill Dodd, Napa's Democratic state senator.

The bill encapsulates the long-standing contradictions in how California manages the destructive feral pigs that have invaded 56 of California's 58 counties.

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