{"id":5324,"date":"2019-05-13T12:03:40","date_gmt":"2019-05-13T17:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.www.outdoorsfirst.com\/whitetail\/?p=5324"},"modified":"2019-05-13T12:03:40","modified_gmt":"2019-05-13T17:03:40","slug":"alabama-offers-new-license-for-bait-hunting-of-deer-and-pigs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/whitetail\/alabama-offers-new-license-for-bait-hunting-of-deer-and-pigs\/","title":{"rendered":"Alabama offers new license for bait hunting of deer and pigs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MONTGOMERY, Ala. \u2014 A new license allowing bait to be used in the hunting of white-tailed deer and feral pigs in Alabama is now on sale.<\/p>\n<p>The Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources is issuing the annual bait privilege license after a new law was passed, Al.com reported .<\/p>\n<p>The Alabama Legislature approved the baited hunting measure last month. The bill passed the House by a vote of 83-12.<\/p>\n<p>The new law could provide limited help with crop destruction and other problems caused by feral hogs, said Rep. Danny Crawford, R-Athens, who sponsored the bill in the House.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t know if you could ever kill enough feral hogs with a rifle to ever make a dent in it but it will help,&#8221; Crawford said.<\/p>\n<p>Alabama Department Conservation Commissioner Christopher Blankenship said the department did not initiate the bill but was not opposed to it.<\/p>\n<p>Read More: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wral.com\/alabama-offers-new-license-for-bait-hunting-of-deer-and-pigs\/18381628\/\">Alabama offers new license for bait hunting of deer and pigs<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MONTGOMERY, Ala. \u2014 A new license allowing bait to be used in the hunting of white-tailed deer and feral pigs in Alabama is now on sale. The Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources is issuing the annual bait privilege license after a new law was passed, Al.com reported . The Alabama Legislature approved the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11658,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-news-release","post_format-post-format-link"],"acf":[],"youtube_video":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/whitetail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/whitetail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/whitetail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/whitetail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11658"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/whitetail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5324"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/whitetail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5325,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/whitetail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5324\/revisions\/5325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/whitetail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/whitetail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/whitetail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}