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OR: Ranchers lose livestock, dog to wolves

By Katy Nesbitt, The Observer

WALLOWA — A Wallowa County calf and sheep and a guard dog found dead last weekend in Umatilla County, were confirmed to have been killed by wolves.

Jeanie Mallory said on June 18 she and her husband, Max, were moving 100 mother and calf pairs of cattle from one pasture to another in the late evening when they struggled to get one of the calves through a gate. When they looked back at the gate, there stood a wolf.

“He was looking at us and checked out the calf, then the wolf walked into the timber,” Mallory said. “He was not afraid whatsoever.”

Mallory said loggers working in the area have told them they see wolves in the landing when they arrive at their jobsite in the morning, but until then she had not seen one.

She said the calf saw the wolf and bolted back into the pasture. In the diminishing daylight, the Mallorys led the calf’s mother into the first pasture and returned a couple days later to move them in with the rest of the herd.

When they returned two days later, Mallory said the calf that had struggled to go through the gate was dead near a pond. An investigation by the Wallowa County Sheriff’s Office, Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife and USDA Wildlife Services determined the calf was killed by a Wenaha pack wolf.

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