[Midlife Newb]

Wow. Reading those responses to my query was really awesome and I really want to thank all of you. This is honestly my very first forum. Normally I'm not a joiner and I even have the t-shirt to prove it but it's safe to say. I'M HOOKED. I'm grateful for the the door knocking advice because that was my very first instinct. As well as the invitation to partner up! Come on! Really! This incredible!
So other than your amazing input. Here's what I found today. I found it all online and think it's fairly compelling as well.
I found an article from 2019 in the Alberta Farm Express. It was an interview conducted with 2 experts about the boar problem. One of experts was a professor from the University of saskatchewan where the problem is much worse according to the prof and the other interviewee was our own "Assistant provincial pest specialists with Alberta Agricultural" Phil Abranenko. The gentleman both concede that there is very large problem with boar and they also agree that hunting boar is not the solution. It is their belief, based on an ongoing study. That if a sounder (group of boars that usually consists of a couple of sows and 2 letters of offspring 1 older 1 younger) is disrupted by the killing of a sow or 2 during the day. That group will then retreat to the low dense brush. Mate at an increased rate and ultimately become nocturnal. This was pretty much all that was said. No word about what the solution could or should be. Curious...
At this time I thought it might be a good idea to contact a fish and game warden to the government take on this thing. The officer simply paraphrased the 2 page document issued about the boar issue. "You find em. You kill em" and further concerns needed to be addressed to Alberta Agricultural. So I called them. They put me through to the man running the boar show. "The expert"
His name...
Perry ABRANENKO. I guess dad retired last year. I asked to speak to this man to hopefully get an idea of what the farmers attitude might be towards the boar. As well as attempt to determine what may be a reasonable solution to attempt to ultimately rid our province of these pigs. And to fill a few freezers along the way. 😉.
Perry politely responded by quoting the article I just read 10 minutes prior to this call. He also indicated that farmers are pretty much split down the middle about the issue. I also took the opportunity to propose a potential solution. An idea I borrowed from my time in the military. The idea was to hunt them at night. Perry responded with concerns about legalities and safety and things like that. I politely agreed. I then mentioned getting the proper authorisation from a farmer or land owner to conduct an evening hunt. Perry was convinced that no farmer that he's aware of would permit that kind of activity on their land. I also agreed but then I posed my actual intention to him and asked. "What if I and a small group of like minded hunters set up a bait stand, implanted tree stands and used crossbows? I was met with momentary silence followed by confusion and consternation...
That was the end of our conversation.
After that call I resumed my research and found a handful of hunters that took the time to respond to a document issued by Ab. Ag. stating very similar points as the aforementioned article. These hunters scoffed at the document's points and went on to say where, when and how they had each brought down wild boar. I learned of their exploits on this forum.
So essentially there seems to be 3 schools of thought.
1. Farmers know about the pigs and don't want to potentially make things worse.
2. Farmers don't believe that there's a problem because they haven't seen any pigs since they shot that big sow 4 summers ago
3. It's all crap. There are pigs out there. You just have to learn how to hunt them...