Updates
What's Changed
New things to explore, clearer answers, and corrections worth knowing about. Here's what's changed on the Hog Watch Tracker.
October 25, 2026
County Explorer now has sourced material for 136 counties.
Since the 26-county update, the Texas County Explorer has grown to 81 sourced research and program entries associated with 136 of Texas’s 254 counties. New entries include published studies, agency and water-authority records, and local program listings. Each entry keeps its own source date, check date, scope and limits. A sourced entry is not a current hog population, risk rating or service-coverage claim, and the other 118 county profiles remain directory entries with Texas-wide guides, not evidence of absence.
October 20, 2026
County Explorer grows to 26 documented counties.
Eight new county program modules join the Texas County Explorer: a Caldwell trap-loan program, Sugar Land’s 90-day assessment, bounty programs in Austin, Bosque, Leon and Bastrop counties, a future 2027 program in Blanco County, and a water-authority partnership in Kerr County. Each entry links its official source, distinguishes the source date from our check date, and states its limits. A program listing is not evidence that hog control is currently available.
October 9, 2026
Meet the people behind the Tracker.
Our Mission now tells the story of how Texas Hog Dispatch and Hog Watch grew from a practical question into a free public research resource. Meet Efrain and Kelly, download print-ready one-pagers, and see the Field Wall recognizing the people helping keep the work within reach.
October 5, 2026
The THD Field Shop is open.
Explore shirts, hoodies, mugs, hats, journals, and other pieces built around the Hog Watch mission. Purchases help support the work of keeping research free and easier to understand.
October 1, 2026
THD research is now in print.
Our article, “Why Feral Hog Management Keeps Running Into Property Lines,” appears in the October 2026 issue of Texas Wildlife Extra, pages 32–34. It examines why property boundaries complicate coordinated feral-hog management.
September 24, 2026
The quiz now changes every time.
Hog Quiz 2.0 draws five questions from a 50-question bank, so each round offers a different mix. Results explain your score and current field rank.
September 18, 2026
Go inside the Texas wild hog.
Inside the Texas Wild Hog brings anatomy, senses, learning, movement, heat, water, feeding, social groups, reproduction, and disease encounters into one connected illustrated guide.
September 16, 2026
Tracker reports now have a clearer path
The Hog Watch Tracker remains a free public research and education resource, and community observations continue to be reviewed separately from service requests. Texas Hog Dispatch also opened its controlled pilot for qualifying private properties outside city limits in Harris and Montgomery counties, giving property owners and operators separate pathways on the main site. Submitting a Tracker report is not a service request, a live public sighting, or a guarantee of action.
September 7, 2026
Finding what you came for just got easier.
The tracker has been reorganized so county data, research, industry explainers, and public tools are easier to find. Research articles are now grouped in one library, and the national state map has its own page so it no longer interrupts the Texas county flow.
September 4, 2026
What removal work actually involves.
The Behind the Work library, Operators & Industry, launched with six sourced explainers about how removal work is organized, documented, and reported.
September 2, 2026
What removal counts can’t tell you.
The Catchability Gap evidence review launched, covering what published removal counts can and cannot show about the hogs that remain.
August 31, 2026
You’ve got your score. How do you compare?
Quiz results now explain how your score compares with the current participant average, when enough responses are available. Take the five-question quiz and see where you land.
August 21, 2026
Why don’t all the hog numbers match?
Clarification: Texas-wide estimates and county-level figures measure different things. We standardized references to the statewide estimate at more than 3 million wild pigs, citing Texas A&M Natural Resources Institute (April 2026), and clarified that county estimates are separate. This followed our site-wide content and branding review.
August 8, 2026
Meet the organizations working on the problem.
Explore five independent nonprofits whose conservation, research, and community work overlaps with feral hog management in Texas and beyond.
August 2–3, 2026
What could five more years look like?
Use the growth calculator to explore how different removal levels affect a population’s projected size over five years. We also added moon-phase context and field guide material about local impacts. Projections illustrate scenarios; they aren’t predictions of what will happen on your property.
July 27, 2026
Writing about the hog problem? Start here.
Our Press Kit brings together logos, a description of Texas Hog Dispatch, and guidance for citing the tracker. We also added information to help search engines understand the dataset.
July 21, 2026
Take your county’s information with you.
Download a county fact sheet as a PDF with a QR code back to the tracker. We also corrected agricultural-damage figures using more current research and made the dataset available for reuse with attribution under CC BY 4.0.
July 20, 2026
The tracker is open. Take a look around.
The first public release brought together a sourced hog knowledge quiz, an accessible national map, downloadable CSV data, and an explanation of where the numbers come from.