Published November 26, 2013/
Associated Press
LARAMIE, Wyo. – The Wyoming Game and Fish Department is looking for information about a cow moose that was poached on state land north of Buford.
Laramie Game Warden Kelly Todd says the cow moose was shot sometime around the weekend of Nov. 9-10.
The cow was shot through the back legs and eventually died in South Crow Creek. A bull moose calf was spotted hanging around the cow’s body.
It is illegal to shoot a cow moose with a calf at its side that hunting area.
Todd says a hunter may have mistaken the moose for an elk. He says hunters need to be aware of what they’re shooting at. [Always good advice!]
The game department is asking anyone with information about the crime to come forward.
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Exposing the Big Game 
oh, the hunter may have mistaken the moose for an elk – now it makes sense – it’s okay to kill an elk but not a moose – amazing how we rationalize and draw arbitrary lines
And the article says it’s illegal to shoot a moose with her calf “in that hunting area,” like it’s ok in other areas.
such absurdtities
Yep
be nice if it was illegal to shoot any animal whether or not a baby is at its side
what grief and agony human hunting causes.
That’s right Louise.
What happened to the bull moose calf???? Did a rescue group come forward to care for it or did the agency just kill it?
Sorry, I haven’t heard.