3 Montana National Guardsmen charged in elk antler trespassing case via helicopter

[1srelluc]

3 Montana National Guardsmen charged in elk antler trespassing case via helicopter

While on the ground, the helicopter crew allegedly took elk antlers from the private ranch land, according to witnesses and officials.

www.ktvq.com

Three Montana Army National Guard members face criminal trespassing charges from the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks after a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter that they were flying in allegedly landed on private property in the Crazy Mountain foothills of Sweet Grass County, reports the Big Timber Pioneer.

While on the ground, the helicopter crew allegedly took elk antlers from the private ranch land, according to witnesses and officials.

Desirable early brown elk antler sheds can be worth thousands of dollars. "I started making calls. I called the game warden to hold these people accountable for what they've done."



I'd like to know more. Is this an enormous private ranch or a "ranch" of just open BLM land?

 

[Cassandro]

I'd like to know more. Is this an enormous private ranch or a "ranch" of just open BLM land?

In either event, it sounds like intentional misuse of the helicopter.

 

[Failzero]

Put them in Prison like the Current Duty Military guys providing Security at the Cartel TDA Nightclub .

 

[mudwhistle]

3 Montana National Guardsmen charged in elk antler trespassing case via helicopter

While on the ground, the helicopter crew allegedly took elk antlers from the private ranch land, according to witnesses and officials.

www.ktvq.com

Three Montana Army National Guard members face criminal trespassing charges from the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks after a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter that they were flying in allegedly landed on private property in the Crazy Mountain foothills of Sweet Grass County, reports the Big Timber Pioneer.

While on the ground, the helicopter crew allegedly took elk antlers from the private ranch land, according to witnesses and officials.

Desirable early brown elk antler sheds can be worth thousands of dollars. "I started making calls. I called the game warden to hold these people accountable for what they've done."



I'd like to know more. Is this an enormous private ranch or a "ranch" of just open BLM land?

We had a set of of Elk Antlers in my parent's rafters for at least 10 years.
My older brother bagged a large male in Eastern Montana. Just one of the antlers was longer than my wingspan at the time. He had to cut it into 3 pieces and hike the carcass out a piece at a time.
Shot it around Sun-up and finished carrying it out just after Sundown.

 

[Concerned American]

3 Montana National Guardsmen charged in elk antler trespassing case via helicopter

While on the ground, the helicopter crew allegedly took elk antlers from the private ranch land, according to witnesses and officials.

www.ktvq.com

Three Montana Army National Guard members face criminal trespassing charges from the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks after a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter that they were flying in allegedly landed on private property in the Crazy Mountain foothills of Sweet Grass County, reports the Big Timber Pioneer.

While on the ground, the helicopter crew allegedly took elk antlers from the private ranch land, according to witnesses and officials.

Desirable early brown elk antler sheds can be worth thousands of dollars. "I started making calls. I called the game warden to hold these people accountable for what they've done."



I'd like to know more. Is this an enormous private ranch or a "ranch" of just open BLM land?

The first paragraph of your post states "private property," not public grazing land. Elk sheds are big money. I would be upset if they were poaching them on my place too. I'd be a bit upset that they set down on my property as well.

 

[1srelluc]

The first paragraph of your post states "private property," not public grazing land. Elk sheds are big money. I would be upset if they were poaching them on my place too. I'd be a bit upset that they set down on my property as well.

Ranchers out that way (according to folks that live there) often claim that BLM land as "theirs".

Western "trespassing" if often as FUBAR as western water rights.