Lookout Mountain Pack attributed to two more depredations
By Shannon McKone on Tuesday, September 21st, 2021 in Eastern/Southeast Oregon News Eastern/Southeast Oregon Top Stories More Top Stories
BAKER COUNTY – (Investigation information from the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife)
𝐒𝐞𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟐𝟎, 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟏 – 𝐁𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐫 𝐂𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐲 (𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝐂𝐚𝐧𝐲𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐚)
Date Investigated: 9/20/21
Cause of death/injury: ConfirmedGeneral situation and animal information: On the afternoon of 9/18/21 a livestock producer, while checking cattle, found an injured approximately 450 lb. calf on a 10,000+ acre private-land pasture. The calf was moved to a corral and examined by ODFW on 9/20/21. The calf was estimated to have been injured 3 weeks before the examination.
Physical evidence and summary of findings: The calf was examined and the hair was shaved around the injury. The calf had at least ten parallel, mostly healed tooth scrapes on the outside and rear of the left leg above the hock. The bite scrapes, at least 1/8 inch wide and up to 4 inches long, led into a 5-inch-wide open wound with regenerating muscle tissue. The location, size, and direction of tooth scrapes are consistent with wolf attack injuries on cattle. The depredation is attributed to the Lookout Mountain Pack.
𝐒𝐞𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟏𝟕, 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟏 – 𝐁𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐫 𝐂𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐲 (𝐃𝐚𝐥𝐲 𝐂𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐤 𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐚)
Date Investigated: 9/17/21
Cause of death/injury: ConfirmedGeneral situation and animal information: On the morning of 9/17/21, ODFW staff found a dead approximately 450 lb. calf in a 3500-acre forested private-land pasture. The carcass was intact with most of the muscle tissue consumed from the left rear leg. The calf was estimated to have died late on 9/16/21.
Physical evidence and summary of findings: Portions of the hide were shaved, and all the remaining hide was skinned. Over 30 pre-mortem parallel tooth scrapes up to 3/16 inch wide and 3 inches long were found on the outside and back of the left hind leg above the hock. Similarly sized pre-mortem tooth scrapes were also found on the right hind leg above the hock and the left elbow. Associated muscle tissue trauma was up to 2 inches deep. The location, size, number, and direction of tooth scrapes and severity of tissue trauma is consistent with wolf attack injuries on calves. The depredation is attributed to the Lookout Mountain Pack.
