Game & Fish Department

GREEN RIVER, Wyo. (AP) — The Wyoming Game and Fish Department reports that six elk were recently poached in Sweetwater County. The agency says the poaching occurred in two areas on Aspen Mountain, south of Rock Springs. Two yearling bull elk were shot and left to rot in one area, while a bull and three cow elk were found about six miles away...

SHERIDAN, Wyo. (AP) — Employees of the Wyoming Game and Fish Department tranquilized a black bear after it turned up near a car dealership on the south side of Sheridan. Police blocked off the area Thursday morning. The Associated Press reports Game and Fish soon arrived and tranquilized the 170-pound male black bear...