As I recall where we hunted was not too far from woodville, near a historic place called Fort Teran where the Mexican had a fort on the river. I think it was the Mexicans. Do you know the place?
This would have been in the 77 to 80 era. Believe it or not but there was at least one Red Wolf still in there then, we saw his tracks several times and then one foggy morning we saw him standing in a logging road. Magnificent. I had no idea that there had been a program to help them out. None of us ever thought of trying to hunt him, he was way too cool.
At the time that we were there it was of course thick pine forest with the occasional meadow and some clear cut areas. The fire ants had moved in real bad though and became so bad that you almost couldn't sit down anywhere. Feral hogs were just getting started good in there too. We saw a few but not many, but I bet they got real thick in there later.