Petersburg Pilot -

Alaska Wildlife Trooper Cody Litster is looking for information from the public on an unsalvaged deer found around 20 yards off the road near Woodpecker Road.

A concerned hunter reported the animal to Litster. The Trooper said the deer appears to have been shot and left to die without harvesting any meat from the animal.

“This was a fairly nice buck and it was senselessly wasted,” Lister said. “This one is an absolute loss.”

Litster said hunters sometimes shoot a deer and it runs away and is unable to be tracked.

“Those instances are very rare and I’m not sure that’s the case...