BLACKFOOT – Late in the afternoon on Friday, May 24, a turkey hunter was attacked by a female moose on a section of Bureau of Land Management land bordering the Snake River near Blackfoot.
According to Idaho Department of Fish and Game officials, the individual was hunting turkeys downstream of Wadsworth Island, a few miles south of the Blackfoot city limits, when he inadvertently startled a female moose with her twin calves.
The moose began to charge, and though he fired two warning shots at the ground in front of her, she was not deterred. As the moose knocked him to the ground, he was able to fire a third…
