{"id":325816,"date":"2025-12-02T10:03:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T10:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/325816\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T10:03:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T10:03:08","slug":"idfg-seeks-info-on-poached-bighorn-sheep-left-to-waste-near-riggins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/325816\/","title":{"rendered":"IDFG seeks info on poached bighorn sheep left to waste near Riggins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;This is not a case of mistaken species as the sheep was clearly shot in the head,&#8221; the Idaho Department of Fish and Game said.<\/p>\n<p>BOISE, Idaho \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/idfg.idaho.gov\/article\/bighorn-sheep-shot-and-left-waste-near-riggins\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">The Idaho Department of Fish and Game<\/a> (IDFG) is asking the public for information regarding a poached bighorn ram sheep found\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvb.com\/article\/news\/local\/idfg-seeks-info-bull-elk-killed-left-waste-adams-county\/277-74839c91-0f0a-4bb1-aa42-05a423e5a5b4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">left to waste<\/a>\u00a0east of Riggins.<\/p>\n<p>Idaho Fish and Game said Monday, the animal was found by a sportsman above Big Salmon Road near Partridge Creek. Officials said they believe the ram was shot between November 20 and 22, \u00a0and no attempt was made to recover it.<\/p>\n<p>There is no season for the hunting of bighorn sheep in that portion of <a href=\"https:\/\/idfg.idaho.gov\/ifwis\/huntplanner\/unit.aspx?ID=19\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Unit 14<\/a>, wildlife officials said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is not a case of mistaken species as the sheep was clearly shot in the head,&#8221; IDFG said in a news release.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Idaho Wild Sheep Foundation has pledged to add $2,000 to the Citizens Against Poaching reward for information leading to an arrest.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Wild sheep are important to Idaho &#8212; they are truly one of the &#8216;gems&#8217; of the gem state,&#8221; said Bill London, Idaho Wild Sheep Foundation conservation committee chair.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is asked to contact the Citizens Against Poaching hotline at (800) 632-5999 or IDFG Clearwater Region (208) 799-5010. IDFG said callers can remain anonymous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;This is not a case of mistaken species as the sheep was clearly shot in the head,&#8221; the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325817,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,201],"class_list":{"0":"post-325816","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}