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Other Hunting => Coyote, Small Game, Varmints => Topic started by: HoofsandWings on April 21, 2020, 04:25:48 PM

Title: poaching fyi
Post by: HoofsandWings on April 21, 2020, 04:25:48 PM: April 21, 2020
Contact: Capt. Dan Rahn, WDFW Enforcement (509) 892-7858
Staci Lehman, Public Affairs (509) 710-4511
WDFW seeks information on elk and deer poaching case
SPOKANE – The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) is partnering with the Idaho
Department of Fish and Game (IDFG) to solve a poaching case that straddles the Idaho/Washington border.
A cow elk and white-tailed doe were illegally killed, and the meat wasted, the night of April 17. Between approximately 10 p.m. and 2 a.m., the animals were shot three miles west of the town of Blanchard, in a privately-owned field off east Blanchard Road in Washington. The hindquarters of the elk were removed, but later dumped off Blanchard Cutoff Road, east of Highway 41 in Idaho.
Necropsies revealed both animals were in the later months of pregnancies.
"This is an egregious crime," said WDFW Police Captain Dan Rahn. "Not only was the shooting outside of the hunting season, but the animals were spotlighted, which is illegal, the meat was wasted, and a total of four animals killed."
Rewards are being offered in this case through both WDFW and IDFG for information that leads to a citation.
If you have information on this case, there are several ways to report it. Call 877-933-9847, email reportpoaching@dfw.wa.gov or send a text tip to 847411. You can also report online at https://wdfw.wa.gov/about/enforcement/report. Tips can be provided anonymously. A monetary reward or bonus points toward special hunts are available for information leading to an arrest.
Title: Re: poaching fyi
Post by: ThurstonCokid on April 21, 2020, 04:30:46 PM: These kind of things absolutely make my blood boil....

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Title: Re: poaching fyi
Post by: buglebrush on April 21, 2020, 04:34:43 PM: Infuriating! Cannot fathom what kind of person would do that? :bash:
Title: Re: poaching fyi
Post by: TVHunts on April 21, 2020, 04:35:20 PM: Hopefully someone talks and these low life’s get the book thrown at them. What a waste!
Title: Re: poaching fyi
Post by: Hilltop123 on April 21, 2020, 04:36:16 PM: What a F'ing joke! We where under stay home orders, knowone saw a F'ing thing............
Title: Re: poaching fyi
Post by: Pinetar on April 21, 2020, 04:38:48 PM: Quote from: buglebrush on April 21, 2020, 04:34:43 PM
Infuriating! Cannot fathom what kind of person would do that? :bash:

:yeah: :bash:
Title: Re: poaching fyi
Post by: Yelper Guy on April 21, 2020, 04:59:14 PM: That's near my old turkey Nirvana, farmhouses scattered with lots of distance between.
I can totally see some dbag doing that in that area.
Title: Re: poaching fyi
Post by: Oh Mah on April 21, 2020, 05:34:40 PM: Of course,No one allowed out there so no witnesses.Reminds me of other laws that only people that obey the law even follow these laws.