{"id":350495,"date":"2025-12-15T17:48:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T17:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/350495\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T17:48:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T17:48:07","slug":"two-charged-with-alleged-unlawful-take-and-waste-of-a-bull-moose-in-north-idaho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/350495\/","title":{"rendered":"Two charged with alleged unlawful take and waste of a bull moose in North Idaho"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MISSOULA, Mont.  \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/idfg.idaho.gov\/article\/two-washington-residents-charged-alleged-unlawful-take-and-waste-bull-moose-north-idaho\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Two Washington men <\/a>are facing felony wildlife charges after investigators say a trophy bull moose was unlawfully killed and left to waste near the Idaho\u2013Washington border.<\/p>\n<p>Idaho Fish and Game conservation officers say the moose was killed the morning of Nov. 25 near Twin Lakes, and officers were alerted the following day by a concerned neighbor who reported suspicious behavior. Officers contacted the men and found they had a Washington moose tag but no Idaho tag, and the carcass was only partially processed more than 24 hours later, with investigators determining the meat was not salvageable.<\/p>\n<p>The Kootenai County Prosecutor\u2019s Office has filed felony charges including unlawful take and waste of a bull moose and concealment of evidence; the case remains active, and officials are asking the public to continue reporting suspected wildlife crimes through the Citizens Against Poaching hotline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MISSOULA, Mont. \u2014 Two Washington men are facing felony wildlife charges after investigators say a trophy bull moose&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":350496,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,201],"class_list":{"0":"post-350495","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\/350495","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=350495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}