Lookout Mountain Pack Blamed For Another Baker County Kill

The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife says the Lookout Mountain Pack is responsible for a depredation discovered over the weekend. On Saturday morning, a 400 pound, five month old calf was found dead on private pastureland in the Manning Creek area. ODFW says the carcass had been heavily scavenged and was missing all internal organs and most of the tissue, though most of the hide was present from the rear legs above the hocks, belly, and ribcage. The calf was estimated to have died on the night of 10/14/21.

The remaining hide was shaved and skinned. The calf had at least a dozen pre-mortem parallel tooth scrapes less than a 1/8 inch wide in the hide of the rear left leg above the hock. The pre-mortem bite wounds are a clear sign of predator attack and the number, location, and direction of tooth scrapes is similar to other confirmed wolf attacks on calves. A GPS location from a radio-collared Lookout Mountain wolf around the time of the calf’s death was at the carcass location.

While this is the 12^th depredation attributed to the Lookout Mountain pack, if is the first of the month attributed to the LMP.

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