Poaching

The men were convicted of multiple wildlife offenses and cumulatively fined $171,230 and $131,550 in restitution

The Wyoming Game and Fish Department is asking for the public's help in hunting down whoever poached a mature bull elk in Sybille Canyon early this month.

According to Wyoming Game and Fish, Justin Chewning and Steven Macy have been ordered to pay close to $15,000 in fines and have lost their hunting privileges for a number of years.

The Wyoming Game and Fish Department has found yellow perch in Saratoga Lake as a result of illegal fish stocking and is looking to find the person responsible. Yellow perch are not native to the upper North Platte River watershed. The department is concerned that the yellow perch may escape into the upper reaches of the North Platte River drainage...

According to game and fish, the sentence is the culmination of a years-long investigation.

Anyone with information on this wildlife violation can report tips or suspicious activity by calling the Stop Poaching Hotline 1-877-WGFD-TIP (1-877-943-3847).

Illegally killing a grizzly in the Yellowstone region is punishable by up to six months in prison and a $25,000 fine.

According to a news release, Lovell Game Warden Dillon Herman discovered the deer's carcass between Garland and Deaver east of Wyoming Highway 114.

Anyone with information on this or any other wildlife violation can call the Stop Poaching Hotline at 1-877-WGFD-TIP, or 1-307-777-4330 for out-of-state calls.

Wyoming game wardens are investigating recent poaching in northern Wyoming.

According to a Wyoming Game and Fish statement, Grove was convicted in 2018 for illegally taking a grizzly bear north of Dubois in 2015.

Robertson said he thought the doe was exhausted and stressed, so he held its head under the water until it drowned.