IDAHO CITY, Idaho — Idaho Department of Fish and Game officers are searching for answers after a bull moose was illegally killed and left to rot near Idaho City.
The remains of the young moose were found over the weekend on the Cottonwood Creek/Thorn Creek divide, although investigators believe it was shot sometime in early November.
The discovery marks the second moose poaching incident near Idaho City this month, and the eighth total in three years. The head of a young cow moose was found on Rocky Ridge Yurt Road earlier in November.
"Moose populations continue to struggle in the Idaho City area and for good reason," Fish and Game offficials wrote in a news release. "We have no idea how many others might have been illegally taken and never found."
Anyone with information is urged to call the Citizens Against Poaching hotline at 800-632-5999 or the Fish and Game regional office in Nampa at 208-465-8465.
