Four Female Elk Killed by Poacher; Fish and Wildlife Wardens Investigating

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Elk cow from 2017. [Photo from Lynn Harrington]

Press release from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife:

The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) is seeking information about an elk poaching case currently under investigation in Humboldt County.

On Sunday, Dec. 9, 2018, CDFW wildlife officers responded to a poaching report in the Maple Creek area, southeast of Blue Lake. During the investigation, officers discovered four dead Roosevelt cow (female) elk. An examination showed the animals were recently killed with a firearm, and one of the elk was pregnant.

CDFW closely manages the state’s Roosevelt elk herds. A limited number of hunting permits are available for this species in Humboldt County, and some hunters wait more than a decade to be successful in the drawing. Elk hunting season was not open at the time these animals were shot.

Officers are continuing their investigation, including processing evidence left at the crime scene. CDFW asks that anyone who has any information regarding this poaching crime to contact the statewide tip hotline, CalTIP, at 1 (888) 334-2258. Tips can also be sent via text to CALTIP, followed by a space and the message to tip411 (847411). CalTIP (Californians Turn In Poachers and Polluters) is a confidential secret witness program that encourages the public to provide CDFW with factual information leading to the arrest of poachers and polluters.

Earlier Chapter: Officers Seeking Public’s Help Finding Person Who Poached Roosevelt Elk Using Arrows

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Sheesh!!
Guest
5 years ago

Catch whatever pos did it please.
Thank you f&w!!!

Redwood Dan
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Redwood Dan
5 years ago
Reply to  Sheesh!!

I killed two this year with a 12 guage shotgun with open sights… Then took them home and butchered them. You get 100-120+ pounds of packaged meat from an adult cow elk.

Zac
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Zac
5 years ago
Reply to  Sheesh!!

What losers. You’re supposed to drag it home and eat it after you kill it. I got two this year with a 12 guage shotgun… then took them home and butchered them. You get 100-120 pounds of packaged meat from a large cow elk.

LostCoastEMP
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LostCoastEMP
5 years ago

Morons n dipsticks.

shak
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shak
5 years ago

I’ll have to sign up on a free speech forum like 4ch to say all the expletives I am holding back here. Disturbing.

Willie Caso-Mayhem
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5 years ago
Reply to  shak

What free meat for you ,right?

shak
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shak
5 years ago

You’ll have to explain your remark. I don’t understand how you arrived at such a response to my response of horror at the beautiful animals being destroyed.
Weird.

Frankie
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Frankie
5 years ago

These punk ass poachers killed and left these animals in the middle of the road. They did not take meat from the animals, just shot them and left them in the road. [edit]

guest
Guest
guest
5 years ago

Did they chop them up for food or just kill them for perverted reasons?

Frankie
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Frankie
5 years ago

Report says one elk was pregnant. I was told all 4 animals were juvenile to adolescent size. Whoever did this is low down dirty piece of shit.

tax payer
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tax payer
5 years ago

does, seriously?

gunther
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gunther
5 years ago
Reply to  tax payer

female elk are called cows actually.

Disgusting supervisors
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Disgusting supervisors
5 years ago

Probably did it too keep f&w busy instead of out extorting the poor rural folks of humboldt. Still sickening !!! Or maybe they already got extorted!!! Speaking of extortion has anybody heard whats up with [edit] fennells RECALL??????

guest
Guest
guest
5 years ago

Maybe it’s time Kym started charging for advertising, being that no article, no matter how unrelated, escapes this political message.

Huh?
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Huh?
5 years ago

Pay attention. This is about a massacre of majestic animals.
Put down the mirror and think about something else.

Shel
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Shel
5 years ago

Is it poaching if they are killing and leaving? I would look at the neighborhood; the elk walk through many fences and sounds like someone is frustrated. That is sad that they just killed and left them!

Guest
Guest
Guest
5 years ago
Reply to  Shel

I’ve never heard of anyone doing that. Are elk like deer and a double hot wire keeps them out?

gunther
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gunther
5 years ago
Reply to  Shel

If they were killed and left, then the charges would be poaching and wanton waste.

For Real
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For Real
5 years ago

You know, if fish and game wasn’t so busy trying to over regulate and be a nuisance in the permitting process for local cannabis farms, they might be more effective in doing their real job which is to prevent this shit from happening. Lol

Ugh
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Ugh
5 years ago
Reply to  For Real

Sad but true.
For years and years we’ve asked for more wardens to go after poachers with no results. Somehow they have $ for wardens to do pot inspections. Id way rather have them out catching idiots doing crap like this.

For Real
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For Real
5 years ago
Reply to  Ugh

Yep! They’re charging incredible fees and fines and saying you’re good, only to have a different officer come back and say it’s not and who said it was. They are not on the same page and don’t want any permitted farms in the hills and have verbally said they will do everything in their power to prevent it by making it difficult. Screw those guys. Go back to protecting the animals and not regulating building permits for private property!😡😡😡

Lady
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Lady
5 years ago

Sounds like ole buffalo days..

Disgusting supervisors
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Disgusting supervisors
5 years ago

For real your spot on — not living up to there real position to protect fish and Wildlife.too busy being extortionast

For Real
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For Real
5 years ago

👍👍👍👍👍

Geoffrey davis
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Geoffrey davis
5 years ago

Automatic rifle… works like a charm… Real sportsman here. Hang em!

Big Bang
Guest
5 years ago

These animals were amazing, amazing, incredible, edible animals. Really. We will build an amazing wall between these amazing edible animals, and the poachers. An amazing, incredible, anti-poaching wall, really amazing. The wall will be the biggest, most amazing anti-poaching wall, and we will send the bill to……China………. Amazing. Really…

Guest
Guest
Guest
5 years ago
Reply to  Big Bang

The shrill, one note song of lesser solitary coot…

gunther
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gunther
5 years ago
Reply to  Big Bang

MEGA….make elk great again.

Dude
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Dude
5 years ago
Reply to  Big Bang

Dumb. These last years must have been really tough on you. Just go watch cnn some more. 98 percent trump bashing. No news. It’s like Jerry springer. Get a life 😎

Sparklemahn
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Sparklemahn
5 years ago
Reply to  Big Bang

Your derision for peabrain right wing bass turd Hair Hitler The Flaming Orange Satan Chump trump is admirable. Of course, simpletons won’t like it. It is tough when the dummy Conservatives are in charge.

guest
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guest
5 years ago
Reply to  Sparklemahn

Why Trump is President.

Frida
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Frida
5 years ago

There are growers who care about the environment and the scum that don’t. The ones that leave garbage in the woods, divert water illegally and dump chemicals into rivers and streams make everybody pay. So fish and game have to regulate everyone. You sleep with the dogs your gonna get fleas. To bad about the elk.

Jacob
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Jacob
5 years ago

It isn’t right that this happened. But, nobody seems to care when wolves kill a herd of nearly 30 and leave them laying just the same.

a reader
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a reader
5 years ago
Reply to  Kym Kemp

In fact, the nearest wolf is near the OR border in the East of the state.

Jacob
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Jacob
5 years ago

I was off on my recollection of how many elk it was. It was 19. There’s an article by National Geographic about it. They called it a surplus killing. And I think it happened in Wyoming

a reader
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a reader
5 years ago
Reply to  Guest

Wolf Pack Slaughters 19 Elk in Rare ‘Surplus Killing’
PUBLISHED MARCH 25, 2016
Surplus killings tend to be most common in late winter and may actually represent an effort by wolves to cache food for later use, the group notes. The predators are known to return often to kills to snack, sometimes for weeks.

Sometimes more prey are also killed than wolves may have first intended due to the chaos of the hunt, the group adds.

But even if the elk don’t get fully consumed by the pack, they will provide food for other scavengers.

Lynn H
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Lynn H
5 years ago

How selfish and self centered does a person have to be to kill 4 cows and then *leave them to waste*? How absolutely disrespectful. I would think (and hope) a rancher would at least eat them. Electric fences should definitely keep elk out if the top strand is high enough. Those fences can keep grizzlies out, never mind elk. Regular fences will keep elk out too- I’m pretty sure they’ve used regular heavy duty fences in Orick for a long time.

Someone should have heard those shots. Hope they catch whoever it is.