In 2008, a Man Was Charged with One Count of Illegally

question 430

Multiple Choice

In 2008, a man was charged with one count of illegally stocking wild animals, a civil offense. State investigators had accused him of bringing 31 wild hogs from Texas to Wisconsin to hunt on his private land in 2002, spawning a feral hog population that has caused thousands of dollars in crop damage to hundreds of farms in the region. The marginal external ________ of the man's movement of feral pigs is ________.

• A) costs; negative.
• B) benefits; positive
• C) costs; positive.
• D) benefits; negative

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