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Arock climber discovered a large desert bighorn sheep carcass near a state highway in western Colorado on Monday, Oct. 31. Now, Colorado Parks and Wildlife isasking for the public’s helpto find the poacher who killed it.

Colorado Parks and Wildlife’s Tyson Floersheim investigates the scene of the crime.©Colorado Parks and Wildlife

The ram, whose horns made a 5/8- to 3/4-turn, laid dead next to Highway 141 between Grand Junction and Gateway. Responding officers determined the ram was shot more than 24 hours prior to the discovery. The bullet was lodged behind the ram’s front shoulder.

“The ram was shot and left there with nothing removed from it,” CPW wildlife officer Kevin Duckett says in the press release. “There is a desert bighorn sheep hunting season in that unit, but it [did] not start…