poaching

Wyoming Game and Fish Department investigators have charged two men with poaching deer after linking trash found at the scene of the crime to them.

(Photo: banspy, pixlr.com) 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...

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...

A mule deer poaching, this time in Converse county north of Rolling Hills, is under investigation and wildlife officials are asking for information. Robin Kepple, spokesperson for the Casper Game and Fish offices says the animal was shot with a small calibre rifle and found dead off of 55 Ranch Road in Hunt Area 22...

POWELL, Wyo. (AP) — A judge has ordered three men to pay a combined $17,000 in fines and restitution for poaching seven mule deer off the Chief Joseph Highway north of Cody in 2009. The Associated Press reports  that Circuit Judge Bruce Waters of Cody accepted plea agreements between the Park County Attorney's Office and the three men...

CASPER, Wyo. (AP) — The Wyoming Game and Fish Department says a 19-year-old Worland man is the first to be charged under the state's new felony poaching law. The Associated Press reports  that 19-year-old Colton Lapp faces five felony poaching counts under a state law that went into effect last July...

CODY, Wyo. (AP) — Three Worland residents have been sentenced in the poaching of a trophy class mule deer. Shenae Blakemore was ordered to pay $3,000 in restitution, placed on probation for two years and prohibited from hunting for two years...

Another deer carcass was found west of Casper last week, and while they don't know if its related, officials at the Wyoming Game Fish Department say it mirrors a poaching event that occurred in September where a deer was killed and abandoned...

Another poaching incident northwest of Casper has Wyoming Game and Fish asking for help. "Last week we had five pronghorn buck that were shot and abandoned. This was out near 33 mile road. These were four yearling bucks and one mature buck...