Wildlife officials are investigating a spate of recent poaching cases in Oregon, including two wolves that were illegally killed in opposite corners of the state.
Poachers have killed a bighorn sheep, two black bear cubs, seven elk, two black-tailed buck deer and two wolves in separate incidents across Oregon over the past month, according to the Oregon State Police Fish & Wildlife Division and the Center for Biological Diversity.
A ram looks for water after a day of chasing ewes. | Bill Schiess, EastIdahoNews.com “Have you seen the herd of bighorns up by Lone Pine,” a neighbor called to ask me a couple of weeks ago. “The rams are chasing the ewes all over a hay field and there are about six large rams […]