Help sought in poaching cases

A pair of poached elk discovered on Little Mountain has resulted in the Wyoming Game and Fish Department seeking help to identify the culprits.

The elk were poached in Hunt Area 31 on Little Mountain sometime between Oct. 4-6.

“The first elk discovered was a cow that was shot and left on the east side of Little Mountain, south of Rock Springs,” Game Warden Gary Boyd said in a media release. “The cow elk had a GPS collar on it and was collared as part of the D.E.E.R. Project going on in the area.”

Boyd thinks the hunter shooting the elk may have noticed the radio collar and got scare...