Event Title: Webinar: Eradicating Feral Hogs & Restoring Havasu Wildlife Refuge
VMS-AT: AT: Hill Country Chapter Other Approved Training (Enter AT#, Class Title as posted, Location, and Presenter)
Comments: AT25-058 WEBINAR: Eradicating Feral Hogs & Restoring Havasu Wildlife Refuge, Presenter:
David L. Bergman (AT=1.0h)
Event Date: 01/23/2025
Event Time: 11:00a-12:00p Central Time
Event Summary: Learn about how eradicating Feral Pigs has led to the Restoration of Havasu National Wildlife Refuge
Event Description: Join us for an exclusive webinar featuring David L. Bergman, State Director for USDA Wildlife Services’ Arizona Program and a Certified Wildlife Biologist with decades of experience resolving human-wildlife conflicts.
Mr Bergman will share the remarkable story of Havasu National Wildlife Refuge, a vital 37,515-acre habitat along the Colorado River, and the invasive feral swine that threatened its ecosystem. Learn how a groundbreaking partnership between USDA Wildlife Services and the US Fish and Wildlife Service has nearly eradicated this destructive species, protecting critical wetland habitats, wildlife, and public safety.
Cost: Free
Zoom link will be provided at time of registration.
Event Location: Webinar
Presenter: David L. Bergman David Bergman received his B.S degree from the University of Nebraska – Kearney and conducted his graduate research at Texas A&M University – Kingsville. For the past 18 years of his 30 year career in the US Department of Agriculture (USDA), David has been the State Director for the USDA, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Wildlife
Services’ Arizona Program. David oversees a diverse program that includes wildlife damage management for human health and safety, agriculture, property and natural
resources. His focus is on managing human wildlife conflicts through predation management, working with endangered species such as Mexican wolves, invasive species, urban coyotes, and zoonotic diseases especially plague and rabies.
David L. Bergman
State Director
USDA APHIS Wildlife Services, Arizona Program
8836 N 23 Avenue, Suite 2
Phoenix, AZ 85021
Phone 602 870-208
Contact Information: Aaron Sumrall pigbrig@pigbrig.com
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Sponsoring Organization: USDA