Western game wardens go after poachers    • Dave Harper,
district wildlife manager from Dolores, Colorado, holds a trophy
rack cut from the skull of a deer by poachers.      Colorado
Division of Wildlife   • Brad Banulis, terrestrial biologist in
Montrose, Colorado, examines the head of a deer that was poached
in the fall of 2005 on the Uncompahgre Plateau. The antlers were
cut from the animal and the carcass left to rot.      Division
of Wildlife, Joe Lewandowski  A thick autumn snowfall still
carpeted the ground when Colorado district wildlife manager Tom
Knowles got the tip that put him on the trail of the "Missouri
boys." The informant, a hunter named Michael Xavier, said that
three men who had licenses only for cow elk had killed at least
one bull elk in Rio Blanco County, in the north-central part of
the state.  Knowles visited the hunting camp where Xavier saw
the men. There, a camper named Doug Harlow told Knowles that he
also saw the trio -- whom he called the "Missouri boys" --
bringing meat back fr