“One of the things we had was a refrigerated freezer truck on-site,” McDonald said. It was given to a nonprofit organization, Idaho Hunters Feeding the Hungry, before they distributed the meat to a variety of food pantries around the Magic Valley Region, according to McDonald. They also believe there was wasteful destruction of game meat, something that sportsmen can be punished for doing.īut McDonald argues that all the meat was salvageable and he said they field dressed everything. “IDFG must be reigned in and held accountable for this gross abuse of power along with their evident downward trajectory away from their original 1938 citizens initiative to effectively manage Idaho’s big game,” Idaho For Wildlife said in a post. Idaho For Wildlife said in a post that elk shouldn’t be treated like an “experimental lab rat.” It’s a safety issue and there’s no mechanism to make that happen.” Courtesy of Idaho For Wildlife Facebook “We don’t have any mechanism to allow hunters to go out there and hunt at that point because you can’t legally hunt at night. “They were active at night which is something that makes dealing with elk depredations extremely difficult when they change their behavior like that,” McDonald said. The last one was the use of trained hound dogs to try and move elk out of cornfields. Officers with Fish and Game were unable to locate the moose until the. The Twin Falls County Sheriff reported they received multiple calls about moose wandering in close proximately to Highway 30, just west of Twin Falls, on Saturday, June 19. He said the two other treatments were a taste-based repellent sprayed on crops that if elk ate it, it tastes terrible and they go elsewhere. TWIN FALLS, Idaho The Idaho Department of Fish and Game captured and relocated two yearling bull moose that had wandered into Twin Falls on Sunday. The treatment used in the Southeast Region was a fence modification where they tried to prohibit elk from accessing certain areas, according to McDonald.

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