A wolf pack is captured by a remote camera in Hells Canyon National Recreation Area in Northeast Oregon in February 2017.

BAKER CITY — Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife employees have killed six wolves from the Black Pines Pack, which has killed cattle in Baker and Union counties several times this fall.

Under an agency permit, employees killed two wolves, a juvenile and a yearling, on Nov. 30 after wolves from the pack killed a 6-month-old calf near Beagle Creek, in southern Union County near Medical Springs.

Ranchers had hazed wolves from the pack the previous day when they arrived on private land, according to ODFW.

The day after ODFW workers killed the two wolves, animals from the Black Pines Pack returned to the same area, where ranchers hazed them again.

The next day, Dec. 2, wolves returned, and ODFW employees killed four wolves — one adult, one yearling and two juveniles. Workers chased the remaining wolves back onto higher elevation forested land.

ODFW on Nov. 21 had authorized the killing of up to six wolves from the pack. With six wolves having been killed, that permit has expired.

According to ODFW, the Black Pines Pack, prior to the killing of six wolves, consisted of at least 12 wolves, including five wolves born this spring.

ODFW biologists have confirmed that wolves from the pack attacked livestock at least 10 times in Baker and Union counties over the past year, including at least four depredations this fall.

In addition to the Nov. 30 incident in which wolves killed the calf near Beagle Creek, ODFW confirmed that wolves from the Black Pines Pack killed a 5-month-old calf near Beagle Creek in mid-November and probably killed an 8-month-old calf near Clover Creek north of the Keating Valley in Baker County around the same time.

Wolves from the Black Pines Pack also killed two 8-month-old calves in the Balm Creek area, also north of Keating Valley, in two separate attacks in early October.