EAGER, AZ (AZFamily) — Arizona Game and Fish is offering a reward for information leading to the arrest in two poaching incidents in the White Mountains in eastern Arizona.

Up to $20,000 is available for anyone who can help provide key information about two separate poaching incidents where seven elk and two bighorn sheep were killed in Game Management Unit 1 near Big Lake , which is south of Eager.

On July 20, AZGFD found three cow elk shot and left for dead near Forest Roads 249E and 24, likely around 8:15 p.m.

A week later, on July 27, four more elk were found shot near the turnoff to the campground at Big Lake . AZGFD believes the three cow elk and one bull elk were killed around 9:30 p.m. That same day, two bighorn sheep rams were found shot along Forest Road 249 near Thr

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