Picture Reveals Poaching Wildlife Worker

By Alan Gionet
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (CBS4)– It was a picture that told the story. A photo of a US Fish and Wildlife employee posing with a trophy elk was making the rounds among people on the Western Slope.
But then the photo of Thad Bingham of Fruita, made it to someone at the Colorado Department of Parks and Wildlife. That land may look vague to you, but they recognized is as private land on the Roan Plateau near Rifle. This was a case of poaching.
Bingham, 44, has pleaded guilty to tre