{"id":333363,"date":"2025-12-06T05:30:05","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T05:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/333363\/"},"modified":"2025-12-06T05:30:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T05:30:05","slug":"montana-authorities-seek-information-on-elk-poaching-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/333363\/","title":{"rendered":"Montana authorities seek information on elk poaching incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PHILIPSBURG, Mont. \u2014 Montana Fish, Wildlife &amp; Parks game wardens are investigating the illegal shooting and abandonment of a cow and spike elk on private property between Georgetown Lake and the East Fork Reservoir, south of Philipsburg. <\/p>\n<p>The elk were believed to have been killed on the morning of Nov. 29. <\/p>\n<p>Evidence suggests each elk died near where it was shot, with boot prints indicating the suspect walked within a few yards of one of the animals. <\/p>\n<p>Authorities are appealing to the public for any information related to the incident.<\/p>\n<p>If you have potential tips on this case, contact game warden Ezra Ginzberg at 406-240-0835.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>You can also visit tipmont.mt.gov for more information on reporting natural resource crimes and who to contact in your local area. You may be eligible for a reward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILIPSBURG, Mont. \u2014 Montana Fish, Wildlife &amp; Parks game wardens are investigating the illegal shooting and abandonment of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":333364,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,201],"class_list":{"0":"post-333363","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\/333363","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=333363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}