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Wyoming
Feral Swine Alert.
A report-first guide to possible feral swine in Wyoming. The state has no established public feral-swine hunting season or managed opportunity.
Official feral swine alert page ↗01 / Overview
Start with the shape of the hunt.
Wyoming does not maintain an established feral-swine hunting opportunity, and USDA distribution work emphasizes rapid reporting and coordinated removal in states without known populations.
A suspected wild pig may be escaped livestock, and ownership, livestock law, disease response, land authority, and official removal direction must be resolved before action.
This page is an invasive-species alert, not a promise of hunting opportunity. Report sightings, sick or dead animals, tracks, rooting, or illegal releases promptly.
02 / Opportunity
Is this a good state for this hunt?
Do not travel to Wyoming expecting a public pig hunt.
Uncoordinated shooting can scatter a sounder, interfere with eradication, expose hunters to disease, or result in taking owned livestock.
Never transport, release, feed, sell, or create hunting demand for feral swine.
04 / Planning strategy
Support rapid response, not recreational pursuit.
Photograph from a safe distance when possible and record exact location, number, size, color, direction, tracks, rooting, and time.
Contact USDA Wildlife Services, Wyoming Game and Fish, the Livestock Board, landowner, or local authority as directed.
Do not publicize the location, organize a hunt, disturb a trap or operation, or move animals or carcasses.
05 / Seasons
Learn the categories. Check the dates.
Wyoming publishes feral swine alert opportunity through the exact license, region or hunt area, license type, full or reduced price, legal animal, method, season, eligibility, and land status. Those details can change between cycles.
Use the current final regulation and corrections, issued license and carcass coupon, Hunt Planner, live mortality status, Access Yes property page, field signs, and controlling land manager for authoritative dates, boundaries, methods, access, and reporting duties.
Open the current official digest ↗06 / Habitat
Where they live.
Agricultural and livestock land
Owned swine, fences, feed, water, disease, private land, equipment, and homes make official coordination essential.
River and wetland
Rooting, wallows, tracks, mud, water contamination, and dense cover can support useful reports.
Remote public land
A rare sighting still requires coordinates, photos, land authority, and rapid agency contact rather than pursuit.
07 / Methods
Match the method to the exact hunt.
Document
Use photos, video, tracks, rooting, coordinates, direction, and a written timeline without approaching.
Report
Use USDA's feral-swine reporting system and responsible Wyoming authorities promptly.
Do not self-deploy
Wait for official ownership, disease, land, and removal direction.
Current legal methods, ammunition rules, and hunt-specific restrictions come from CDFW and the applicable land manager.
08 / Beginner strategy
If I wanted to start, what would I actually do?
- 01
Read the current Wyoming rules
Begin with the current official regulation and planning source for feral swine alert. Write down the license, area, region, type, price class, dates, legal animal, method, limit, closure, and reporting duties.
Official resource ↗ - 02
Confirm how the license works
Determine whether the hunt uses a resident general license, nonresident region-general draw, limited-quota draw, full or reduced price, preference or random draw, leftover sale, mortality limit, special permit, or another exact structure.
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Prove the land and access program
Confirm public and private parcels, state or federal terms, tribal authority, HMA permission slip and ranch rules, Walk-In species and dates, roads, vehicles, fire, camping, winter closures, and a backup route.
- 04
Scout the actual constraints
Record exact location, number, size, color, direction, tracks, rooting, water, fences, livestock, landowner, safe observation point, and agency contacts.
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Practice the complete sequence
Practice distinguishing feral swine from livestock, documenting without approaching, reporting coordinates, disease biosecurity, and avoiding interference with coordinated removal.
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Recheck, tag, register, and report
Immediately before hunting, recheck the regulation, live mortality status, access, weather, roads, and documents. Afterward, complete every carcass-coupon validation, evidence, CWD transport, tooth or sample, registration, pelt tag, possession, and report duty on time.
09 / Current information
Official resources.
Official federal invasive-swine distribution, rapid reporting, disease, and coordinated-removal guidance.
Official source ↗Wyoming hunting regulationsOfficial current big-game, trophy-game, bison, bird, small-game, wolf, and furbearer regulations, brochures, maps, and updates.
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