DENVER (KDVR) — The National Park Service is investigating a suspected incident of elk poaching that occurred last month in the Great Sand Dunes National Preserve.
NPS said that the incident is suspected to have occurred on Sept. 9 or 10 in the Hudson drainage area of the national preserve, near the town of Mosca in Alamosa County.
NPS said that it is seeking information on a dark-colored Ram pickup truck, and an approximately six-foot-tall Caucasian male of an unknown age with brown hair and a close-trimmed beard.
The park service said the suspect had been wearing camouflage, a ball cap and a backpack.
Additionally, the suspect may have been carrying a compound bow with bright fletching and two elk antlers with four or five points, but no skull.
NPS shared the map below of where the