Colorado Parks and Wildlife is asking for help to identify a suspect who illegally killed a Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep in Saguache County.

According to CPW, the sheep was shot once in the abdomen and left to rot 200 yards off CR 38FF in the Cabin Draw area along Middle Creek. District wildlife managers received a report alerting them to the poaching on Nov. 11. They determined the sheep was killed earlier that day.

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"This bighorn was shot and left there with nothing removed from it," said District Wildlife Manager William Miedema. "There is a single bighorn ram hunting license available in S-10 and neighboring S-55, but my legal hunter for this area had already harvested a ram this year, and the season dates were Sept. 2 through Oct. 2."

CPW said that, in C

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