Nearly $50,000 in fines, restitution imposed for illegal big horn sheep hunts on Salmon-Challis National Forest
On November 24, 2025, a court sentenced Michael T. Scott to pay a $9,500 fine and $15,000 in restitution to the Idaho Department of Fish and Game (IDFG). Scott will also complete a four-year term of probation, during which he is banned from any hunting or trapping activities. Co-defendant Jerrod R. Farr was sentenced on November 6, 2025, to also pay a $9,500 fine and $15,000 in restitution to the IDFG. Farr will complete a two-year term of probation, during which he is banned from any hunting activities.
Farr owned and operated White Cloud Outfitters (WCO), a commercial outfitting and guiding business. He sold and facilitated Rocky Mountain Big Horn Sheep hunts in an area of the Salmon-Challis National Forest that is closed to commercial guiding. Working as a licensed guide for WCO, co-defendant Scott illegally guided two of those hunts.
Both defendants pleaded guilty to violating the Lacey Act for conducting illegal big game hunts (16 U.S.C. §§ 3372(a)(1), 3373(d)(2)).
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Office of Law Enforcement, the U.S. Forest Service, and the Idaho Department of Fish and Game conducted the investigation.
source: US DOJ
