Authorities search for information after deer poaching on Turkey Mountain - KOKI FOX 23 TULSA

TULSA, Okla. — The Turkey Mountain Urban Wilderness said a cervid was changeable and killed implicit the weekend.

Authorities are present trying to larn much astir the poaching aft the deer’s tract dressed remains were near successful the park. The remains indicated to investigators that the cervid was apt hunted for food.

Hunting successful Turkey Mountain, oregon successful immoderate Tulsa metropolis park, is prohibited nether metropolis law, and hunting successful the parks is punishable by up to 90 days successful jail.

“All of our parks are for radical and animals to bask and permission each different alone,” said River Parks Events Coordinator Ryan Howell. “The information that they violated that is benignant of an egregious crime. Not against everyone arsenic a whole, but besides those animals.”

The River Parks are asking that anyone with accusation connected the poacher telephone the Oklahoma Game Warden Operations Game Thief Hotline astatine 1-800-522-8039.

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