On May 8 2012, William Wissler of Southbank was sentenced in a Burns Lake Court room for shooting from a maintained road and trespassing on private property.
The case dated back to January of 2011 when conservation officers received a complaint of a moose being butchered on private property along Uncha Lake Road.
Investigation revealed that a cow moose had been killed on private property without the permission of the land owner. Officers also located a second moose which had been left to waste.
Wissler pled guilty to two charges and is to pay a fine of $2,000. Additional charges of failure to retrieve edible portions of wildlife and hunting on private property were stayed.
Report any illegal wildlife offence to the Report All Poachers and Polluters hot line at 1-877-952-7277.