CARTER COUNTY, Mo. — Missouri’s Operation Game Thief is offering a $20,000 reward for information leading to the conviction of the poacher/s that shot a female adult elk and left it for dead November 18 on National Park Service property near the end of M Highway in Carter County.
No meat or other parts of the animal were taken. By the time the dead cow elk was found by conservation agents, the meat was no longer salvageable for donation.
According to MDC, this is the sixth elk killed by poachers over the past several years. MDC Protection Division Chief Randy Doman said investigations into each incident are ongoing.
The $20,000 will be rewarded to the first conviction received on any of the elk poaching cases.
MDC and CFM ask that anyone with any information related to this investigation or other open elk-poaching investigations report it to Operation Game Thief at 1-800-392-1111. You can remain anomymous.
