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An enormous cache of deer, elk and moose antlers confiscated from poachers is being auctioned by state wildlife conservation officials in Washington, with the proceeds funding rewards for people who help bring illegal hunters to justice.Racks from dozens of trophy elks, moose and deer as well as 1,000 pounds of loose antlers - many taken by poachers who left the carcasses of the fallen animals to rot - are expected to raise tens of thousands of dollars at the online auction, which run until June 5 and is being hosted by Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife."Some rascal didn't get to keep them and they're not going to sit in evidence storage and not generate something positive," WDFW Chief of Enforcement Mike Cenci told FoxNews.com. "This way, [WDFW] will."Some of the antlers were seized from poachers with criminal backgrounds, according to Cenci. Antlers are bought and sold throughout the country, but this is the first auction the state has ever held of entirely poached game. He ...
Federal prosecutors have decided not to file charges against two young elk hunters after investigators concluded they acted in self-defense when they shot and killed...
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Billionaire Ted Turner is getting 88 Yellowstone National Park bison from a faltering Montana program that was supposed to put the disease-free animals on public or ...
Luxury has crept into the most unlikely of industries, including that of hunting. In the past, hunting was all about checked shirts, sleeping on the ground and roast...
Bringing the majestic elk back to the Appalachian hills and hollows where they once roamed has become a nightmare.Rogues from a herd that numbers in the thousands ar...
During the last Ice Age, shaggy mammoths, woolly rhinos and bison lumbered across northern Siberia. Then, about 10,000 years ago — in the span of a geological heartb...
There are 10,000 more horses and burros in the wild than their habitat can support, according to the Bureau of Land Management. But, the agency says, there will soon...
Swedish police say they've cleared a man who was arrested for allegedly murdering his wife after deciding the culprit was most likely a moose.Police spokesman Ulf Ka...
When an auto accident left Liz Soden paralyzed, she told her then-fiance to leave her. He proposed instead, and then disappeared into the garage and began a lifelong...
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Sleepy sightseers piled into vans at a state resort park for a nearly hour-long drive in the dark to an Appalachian coal mining site that's become home to another va...
When 100 farm-raised elk fled his private hunting reserve through a bear-dug hole under the fence, owner Rex Rammell — a man with a long history of locking antlers w...
Suit seeks to stop elk feeding on Wyoming refugeWednesday, June 04, 2008By MATTHEW BROWN, Associated Press WriterE-Mail Print Share:BILLINGS, Mont. Five conservat...
There are certain signs of fall in the town of Estes Park: the chill of morning frost, the reds and yellows of autumn leaves, and the thousands of elk that visit.The...
You are on safari amid lynx, bears and elk. The wetlands around you are dominated by small lakes created by beaver dams. In the distance a wolf howls.Nothing unusual...
The Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation has removed the name of the man known as the "father of modern elk management" from a conservation award after his family objected ...
Around the same time the nation was transfixed on the hunt for the Boston Marathon bombers last month, thieves on the other side of the country pulled off a little-n...