The wildlife you see on your next hiking trip? The rustle in your backyard at night? It might not be a raccoon or a deer. A steady increase in the population of wild pigs — a marauding, non-native ...

Pigs running down the streets of Salinas? “It’s not too far-fetched,” says Monterey County wildlife trapper Dan Burton of Urban Trapping Wildlife Control. With incessant rain softening the ground and ...

The pigs in California have residents seeing blue. Warnings have been issued by authorities in the state after trappers have reported discovering wild pigs with “bright blue” meat. Reports have been ...

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 ...