Poaching

A cow elk was shot and left to waste last week near Stanley

Idaho conservation officers are investigating four poaching cases where mule deer were shot and left to waste earlier this month in Owyhee County

Idaho conservation officers are investigating after a bull elk was found north of Ketchum without its head and the rest left to waste.

Three young men from Missouri have been handed sentences for poaching-related crimes in Custer and Blaine Counties.

Authorities say a mule deer buck was killed last month with a pellet gun within the city limits of Pocatello.

Several protected birds were illegally shot and killed between the months of April and early may in southeastern Idaho

The reward amount seeking those responsible for killing a female grizzly bear with a cub near Island Park has grown to $40,000.

A mountain lion was found poached on a mountain range near Pocatello in late March.

Idaho conservation officers say five trumpeter swans were found shot dead in late March near Newdale in a suspected poaching case

Idaho conservation officers had to euthanize a mountain goat that had been shot with a crossbow in Hells Canyon

Another group of geese were found dumped and left to waste in Minidoka County recently in the same spot where someone had dumped geese late last year

North Idaho wildlife conservation officers say three elk were found left to waste in what appears to be poaching incidents.