Colorado Parks and Wildlife searching for individual who poached two elk
and last updated 2020-12-18 16:36:43-05
HASTY â Colorado Parks and Wildlife is asking for the help of Coloradans in identifying the individual who poached two cow elk at the John Martin Reservoir State Wildlife Area and left their bodies to waste.
CPW officers initially responded to the incident on December 13th.
According to a press release issued earlier this week, Officers found the dead elk in an area east of the Keller tract and west of Rule Creek, between the south bank of the reservoir and the railroad tracks.
Colorado Parks and Wildlife is asking for the public s help in solving a double elk poaching case that occurred earlier this month at the John Martin Reservoir State Wildlife Area.
âThis is poaching and itâs illegal and we want to catch the person who did this,â said Kevin Mahan, a CPW district wildlife manager for the John Martin Reservoir SWA region. âThese elk were treated unethically and that is something we take very seriously.â
Officials say the pair of elk were found dead in the southwest portion of the wildlife area in Game Management Unit 146. The elk had been shot and left to rot between the south bank of the reservoir and the railroad tracks, just east of the Keller tract and west of Rule Creek.
HASTY, Colo. – Colorado Parks and Wildlife is asking the public for help identifying the person who killed two cow elk at the John Martin Reservoir State Wildlife Area and left them to waste.
CPW officers responded to a call on Dec. 13 about two cow elk that had been shot and left in the southwest portion of the wildlife area in Game Management Unit 146.
Officers found the dead elk in an area east of the Keller tract and west of Rule Creek, between the south bank of the reservoir and the railroad tracks.
Officers believe the elk were shot sometime on Dec. 11-12. While investigating, officers discovered evidence that a third elk had been shot, its carcass cleaned and removed from the same area.