Sorry but that is not true, I had a problem of this sort just last year, I found a elk skull with antlers still attached and brought it back to my camp, Azgfd drives by and saw the skull and stops and consficated it, The officer told me that when the animal dies it becomes property of the state and is therefore illegal to pick it up and keep, The fine if I remember is like 1800.00 and 60 days inprisonment, Now this is a law that is not been inforced until recent he told me, After answering a few of his questions(whereabouts did I pick it up,) He said he would investigate the situation and get back to me, It took about a week and a half and he contacted me, He met me back in my camp the following weekend and wrote me a tag for the skull and placed it on one of the antlers, He told me I could pick up all the sheds I found but with skull attached I needed to call the department and report it so that a warden could come and investigate and once there was no problems found they would issue a tag for the skull, It was a long week and a half waiting to see if I was gonna wind up the the steel bar hotel and get fined to boot but it worked out ok I my behalf, If you call the game and fish department and ask they will give you any info you need, I too believed it was ok but was rudely awakened,If you do pick one up keep your fingers crossed that they don't see it or you will more than likely go through the same routine as I did, Now when I see them laying I just let them lay, LOL
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