A few months ago I posted a thread about seeing a Couger on a friends farm while I was hunting for Indian artifacts. This is a farm located in southern Indiana near the white river. Well, it turns out that his neighbor had spotted a couger with two cubs too. Now, my friend says that he received a surprise visit from the USDA. They claimed that in the last six months they have killed over 5% of the entire states wild pig populaion on another adjacent farm. They claim that a large group of pigs is likely living on his farm. They want to put cameras, sensors, and traps all over his property to look for & catch wild pigs, and they were very insistent. They even want to fly over his property with a helicopter using thermal imaging. My friend is all for reducing the wild pig threat, but he has never seen any. He has never seen any tracks, and he has not had ANY crop damage that could be attributed to wild pigs. He has never even had one show up on a trail camera. I walk his fields looking for artifacts, and his woods looking for mushrooms, and I have never seen a single track either. He fears that the USDA is REALLY looking for the cougars. At first I told him that he is just being paranoid, but the more I think about it, the more I think he might be right. Do you think he should allow the USDA access to his farm? Do you think they would lie about their true intentions? If he holds his ground (pardon the pun) and refuses them access, do you think they can force him to grant them access?