SANDPOINT - A Bonner County woman who garnered national acclaim after winning a televised hunting competition is charged with violating hunting laws in North Dakota.

Amanda Rochelle Lowrey is charged with making misrepresentations on a hunting permit application and unlawfully possessing big game, according to court documents filed in Divide County, North Dakota.

Lowrey pleaded not guilty to the misdemeanor offenses and a pretrial conference is set for April 20 in Crosby, N.D.

The alleged offenses date to 2013, when Lowrey was competing for the Extreme Huntress title on the "Eye of the Hunter" program on NBC Sports. Lowrey became a semifinalist following a head-to-head hunting skills challenge in Texas, then advanced and won the Extreme Huntress trophy.

Within days of Lowrey winning the accolade in 2014, an Idaho Department of Fish and Game investigator requested that the North Dakota Game and Fish Department check its records for Lowrey's name, court records show.

Lowrey, an affidavit of probable cause said, purchased a resident hunting and fishing license in February 2013 and listed an address in Zahl, N.D. A search of her Facebook page indicated that she lived there from August 2012 to April 2013.

However, Lowrey purchased a resident deer license in Idaho in November 2012, according to Idaho Fish and Game records. She stated during her Extreme Huntress campaign that she was a Sandpoint resident.

Lowrey's Facebook page contained a photo of her posing with a mule deer which she said she harvested in North Dakota. The photo's geolocation metadata indicated the photo was taken near Epping, N.D., the affidavit said.

Subsequent Facebook posts by Lowrey indicated she harvested the buck while archery hunting, although North Dakota Game and Fish could find no record of her obtaining an archery license.

Fish and Game officers interviewed Lowrey on March 10 and she explained that her husband had been living and working in North Dakota and said the buck photo posted to Facebook was actually taken in Idaho, according to the affidavit.

Lowrey later called Idaho Fish and Game investigator Dave Overman and apologized for lying during the interview. Lowrey recanted her claim that the buck was harvested in Idaho and told Overman that she hit the deer with her truck in North Dakota and kept the animal but neglected to get a permit to possess it.

Lowrey said she posted the picture to Facebook during the North Dakota hunting season to gain publicity for the Extreme Huntress competition, the affidavit alleges.

Seymour Robert Jordan, a Divide County state's attorney, declined to comment on Monday. Lowrey deferred comment on Thursday and did not respond to a follow-up request on Monday.