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(Cheyenne, Wyo.) – An anonymous letter received in January 2012 alerted game wardens that a Cheyenne man imported feral pigs from Texas to Wyoming and also killed a mule deer buck out of season. These tips directly led to the recent convictions of Troy T. Hall for those, and several other wildlife violations.
The investigation, led by Blajszczak and Laramie Wildlife Investigator John Demaree, also confirmed Hall killed a heavy-antlered 5-by-5 mule deer on Nov. 3, 2004, 19 days after the season closed and without the limited-quota license required for that area. Hall, a professional taxidermist, had permission to hunt elk on a ranch in southeast Johnson County – but he did not have permission to hunt deer. In following years, Hall entered his mount of the illegally harvested deer in taxidermy competitions and was awarded several ribbons. He falsified the Interstate Game Tag on the mount by attesting the deer was killed Nov. 20, 2004 near Hulett.
“That included not only the pedestal mount of the illegally taken buck mule deer and many trophy photos of Hall’s illegal activities, but also a trophy set of bighorn ram horns on an attached skull plate that did not have the required plug or Interstate Game Tag,” Blajszczak said.
Hall told officers the horns were a replica of a ram from Estes Park, Colo. and hence did not require a tag, pointing out a portion of a horn that had been repaired. Blajszczak doubted the story and had the mount X-rayed by the Transportation Security Administration at the Cheyenne Regional Airport. The X-ray revealed the horns were real and only a small portion was a repair patch. The Wyoming Game and Fish Department’s Wildlife Forensic Laboratory also confirmed through DNA analysis that the mount was a bighorn ram. Blajszczak later determined that the ram was taken by another individual in Colorado, but no record of a hunting license was found and the case was turned over to Colorado Parks and Wildlife.
Full story here:
http://county10.com/2013/03/05/anon...ildlife-convictions-for-cheyenne-taxidermist/
(Cheyenne, Wyo.) – An anonymous letter received in January 2012 alerted game wardens that a Cheyenne man imported feral pigs from Texas to Wyoming and also killed a mule deer buck out of season. These tips directly led to the recent convictions of Troy T. Hall for those, and several other wildlife violations.
The investigation, led by Blajszczak and Laramie Wildlife Investigator John Demaree, also confirmed Hall killed a heavy-antlered 5-by-5 mule deer on Nov. 3, 2004, 19 days after the season closed and without the limited-quota license required for that area. Hall, a professional taxidermist, had permission to hunt elk on a ranch in southeast Johnson County – but he did not have permission to hunt deer. In following years, Hall entered his mount of the illegally harvested deer in taxidermy competitions and was awarded several ribbons. He falsified the Interstate Game Tag on the mount by attesting the deer was killed Nov. 20, 2004 near Hulett.
“That included not only the pedestal mount of the illegally taken buck mule deer and many trophy photos of Hall’s illegal activities, but also a trophy set of bighorn ram horns on an attached skull plate that did not have the required plug or Interstate Game Tag,” Blajszczak said.
Hall told officers the horns were a replica of a ram from Estes Park, Colo. and hence did not require a tag, pointing out a portion of a horn that had been repaired. Blajszczak doubted the story and had the mount X-rayed by the Transportation Security Administration at the Cheyenne Regional Airport. The X-ray revealed the horns were real and only a small portion was a repair patch. The Wyoming Game and Fish Department’s Wildlife Forensic Laboratory also confirmed through DNA analysis that the mount was a bighorn ram. Blajszczak later determined that the ram was taken by another individual in Colorado, but no record of a hunting license was found and the case was turned over to Colorado Parks and Wildlife.
Full story here:
http://county10.com/2013/03/05/anon...ildlife-convictions-for-cheyenne-taxidermist/
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