BLACK RIVER FALLS − The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources is still asking for help to collect information about the illegal killing of a bull elk in Jackson County.

As of June 3, the DNR announced the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation is offering a $5,000 reward, and the Wisconsin Buck and Bear Club is offering a $500 reward for any information that “leads to the successful prosecution of this incident.”

The elk, called the “largest and most photographed” elk in the state and known to the DNR staff as #244, was found the morning of March 18 off East Snow Creek Road, on private property north of Black River Falls. In April a central elk herd biologist said the shooting of the bull was a tremendous loss for the central elk herd and Wisconsin residents.

Bull elk #244 was one of the l

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