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The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife and State Police are investigating a southern Oregon poaching case.  Investigators say the carcasses of two elk were found along I-5 near Glendale, early Saturday morning.  A bull was left entirely to waste, although troopers were able to salvage some meat for charity.  Poachers processe...

The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife was called out to the Big Lookout Mountain area of Baker County last week after two dead calves were discovered.  On Wednesday, the carcasses of two 10-month-old calves, weighing roughly 500 pounds each were found in a 5000-acre private-land pasture.  At the ...

The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife trapped and killed a wolf from the Horseshoe Pack on Friday.  The wolf, an uncollared, non-breeding adult male, was found where previous depredations occurred.   ODFW said despite non-lethal measures in place including camping with their cattle and hazing, this landowner had experienced repeated livestock depredations by the Horseshoe Pack and requested a

Oregon’s Department of Fish and Wildlife are looking for the person(s) responsible for shooting and killing a wolf on BLM property in Baker County.  A black female, known as OR-88, was found dead October 3rd near Little Lookout Mountain, nine miles northeast of Durkee. OR-88 was part o...

Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife crews were called to a wolf depredation in the Meacham area of Umatilla County over the weekend.  Investigators were called out Saturday, after a producer found an injured eight-month old, 600 pound calf in a 4,000-acre private land pasture.  The cal...

Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife crews are investigating a depredation that occurred in Baker County's Big Lookout Mountain area.  Investigators were called out Wednesday evening, after a livestock producer found an approximately 450 pound, six-month-old, injured calf in a 1000-acre private-land pasture.  ODFW sa...

Northeast Oregon has been very active with wolf depredations and possible depredations throughout the month.   Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife crews were call to the Meacham area of Umatilla County Friday, after a livestock producer found the carcass of a 600 pound, eight-month-old calf in a 4,000-acre private land pasture.  In...

Oregon’s Department of Fish and Wildlife is labeling the northern Oregon Cascades a new Area of Known Wolf Activity; after two pups were spotted on a trail camera on the Warm Springs Reservation.  Two wolves were initially found in December by Warm Springs biologists, but following that discovery, there was very little activity out of those two pups; that is since last month.  ODFW’s Michel... Rea

“It’s definitely been a bad year for bear damage," said Michelle Dennehy, with Oregon’s Department of Fish and Wildlife, of last week’s incidents  In Bend, a cub was spotted in a neighborhood Wednesday.  It was tranquilized inside the city’...

According to the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, a herder found a dead 100-pound sheep in a private commercial timber land allotment in Union County Wednesday September 7th.  Investigators said hide and tissue were missing from the rear of the hindquarters.  It was ...