After a week, search and rescue teams that have been looking for a 53-year-old Kalispell man who failed to return from a bowhunting trip west of Wisdom are beginning to lose hope.
Robert Carter Jr. had been hunting a few miles west of Big Hole Battlefield National Park. Searchers found his campsite and later his pickup truck.
Beaverhead County Sheriff Franklin Kluesner says there are only 20 volunteers left out of the original 65.
“The search and rescue personnel that we have on scene now, they’re all volunteers taking time away from their jobs and families. There comes a point where you’re just not effectively able to find somebody.”
Carter was last heard from when he contacted his wife on Sept. 16 and she reported him missing on the 19th.