Aberdeen Weyerhauser Poaching

[Casey]

Has anyone with the Aberdeen pass noticed poaching? My dads buddy, my dad, and I have all found poached elk this year. 2 were found today with little meat taken. The one my dad found had a little bit of meat taken but most of the cow was still there. I found one that was killed between muzzle and rifle elk seasons and my dad found one during late buck. There’s no special cow tags in this unit and there’s no late elk in this unit.


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[BA Mongor]

Casey,

I've got to ask, how do you know they were poached. I find a lot of dead animals. I will say this though, I've seen a few individuals who were probably up to no good, but saw or found nothing, so maybe not.

I found (2) poached bulls in the Weyerhaeuser St.Helens pass area, right off of the 6700. Defiantly poached with the blackstrap and head removed and approximately 100 yards off of the road in clear cuts. With all of these permits in place, and no real enforcement up there, it's a free for all for any bad guys that buy a access permit.

The Rayonier permit has been ok, but there's definitely a few suspects who have the Weyerhaeuser CRW access permit. I've only found blood and tire tracks, but do have a few pics of rigs in there in the middle of the night. And this year while heading to my tree stand had 2-young guys in a Toyota scanning the couple clear cuts with their truck headlights. This is off of Mill Creek.

BA

[Skyvalhunter]

Yea how can you be sure this was poached?

[millerwheeler]

Ya know animal do die of other causes other than poaching

[Igottanewknee]

Ya know animal do die of other causes other than poaching

On the road? 

[Stein]

Can't be 100% for sure, but most dogs and cats don't pack knives to cut the hide neatly or take the head off.

[Onewhohikes]

I might be wrong but see nothing "neat" there

[Stein]

Look at the hide where the front quarter used to be.  I suppose a dog could chew the head off and pack it away instead of going for the rib meat or other quarter.  Again, nobody knows, but it looks suspect to me.

From my fairly limited experience, I usually look for what's missing and what was left to try to guess at what happened.

[Bullkllr]

Going out on a limb here and saying it's pretty unusual to find multiple mostly intact elk carcasses next to logging roads.

[Onewhohikes]

Multiple? Was there others found besides the ONE his dad found in the OP?

[fishngamereaper]

Multiple? Was there others found besides the ONE his dad found in the OP?

Did you read his post or skip to the pictures.

[redi]

My question is did you turn it in to enforcement and let them do an investigation and figure out whether it was poached  or not?

[Onewhohikes]

Multiple? Was there others found besides the ONE his dad found in the OP?

Did you read his post or skip to the pictures.

How many pictures do you see? a picture of one elk does not prove there were multiple.

[scooby]

I've got an Aberdeen permit this year, and didn't SEE anything shady, but I'm a pretty light sleeper and heard quite a few shots in the absolute middle of the night. Gunshot report in the 2am silence can travel a pretty long distance, but they were definitely closer than private land adjacent to where I was hunting most of the year.

[Casey]

There’s been about 5 elk in the last couple years that we have found right on the road or just off it in a cut. My dad didn’t take a picture of the one he found but it was processed by knife.  He said they took about half the elk and left the rest. The one he found was only a couple days old. My buddy is going to report it and see if they want to do an investigation. Now i know animals die from other causes but with all the elk we’ve found being “randomly” dead they’ve all been on a road or just off it in a cut and have all been around the same time of year. All have been processed with a knife. It’s pretty easy to examine and animal and tell a dog and a cat didn’t just take a front shoulder off like that. My dad and his buddy have been hunting for years and can tell between an animal being processed by a knife or eaten from other animals.


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