This year, the division took in more than $300,000. The animal parts sold at these auctions, which are normally held every four years, are in high demand and supply hasn’t kept up.
Utah recently made more than $300,000 selling antlers and other animal parts at an auction by the Division of Natural Resources.
Mollie Miller and Jake Steiner are the latter. They saw an ad online and came from Bountiful to check it out. This year, the division took in more than $300,000, Captain Chad Bettridge said. The mounted head of an illegally killed trophywent for $23,350, over $13,000 more than the next highest items: a deer mount and a deer skull with velvet antlers that both sold for $9,700. The furry bison head, sold alongside two skulls in more advanced stages of decay, sold for $210.was “considerably more” than the $100,000 they made last time the DWR held one, in 2016.
That size, he said, was anything he could snuggly wrap his thumb and forefinger around, or bigger. Steele, whose wife is a member of the Seneca Nation of Indians, planned to send whatever he bought to the tribe in New York, so they could be carved into jewelry. Then, they’d move about 6 feet to the next pile and start over. They, and a handful of others, did this for hours.
Bighorn sheep skulls at an auction of antlers and furs recovered during poaching investigations by the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources at the Lee Kay Public Shooting Range in Salt Lake City on Monday, April 25, 2022.
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