SANDPOINT - A Dalton Gardens man is charged with felony offenses for shooting two bull moose near Priest Lake and allowing the meat to go to waste.

Richard L. Bolin Jr. is scheduled to make an initial appearance in Bonner County Magistrate Court on Feb. 27, court records show. He is charged with taking and wasting wildlife.

The charges date to September 2012, when Bolin was moose hunting in the Lost Creek drainage. Other hunters in the area told Idaho Department of Fish and Game conservation officers they saw Bolin shoot one moose and then another a short time later.

A bear hunter questioned the shooting of the two moose, but Bolin insisted he had only shot one, court records indicate.

Conservation officers found the first bull moose intact in an alder thicket. The second moose, which was larger than the first, was found farther up the valley. Only a portion of the meat from that animal was taken, according to court documents.

Most of the second moose's neck meat was left to waste, as was the tenderloin, back strap and ribs. Meat was harvested from the animal's rear hindquarters and front right shoulder, the conservation officer's report said.

Bolin, 59, told a conservation officer he mistook the second moose for the first, of which he briefly lost sight. He admitted finding the first moose after the other hunter advised that he killed two different animals, the report said.

Bolin said that he didn't completely salvage the second moose because the bees, flies and heat became unbearable, the report indicates.

Bolin faces civil penalties of up to $20,000 failing to recover all of the meat from the first moose and most of the meat from the second.