MEDICAL SPRINGS — Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife employees and agents working for the agency have killed four wolves from the Frazier Mountain Pack near Medical Springs, including one wolf killed on Jan. 12.

ODFW officials authorized the killing of all wolves from the pack, which has attacked and killed cattle several times during the past year, said Lauren Mulligan, administrator for ODFW’s information and education division.

As of the start of 2024, the pack, which also has traveled into Baker County, numbered at least six wolves, according to ODFW’s annual survey.

“The Frazier Mountain Pack has continued to depredate on livestock despite ongoing conflict prevention measures and repeated aerial hazing,” Mulligan wrote in an email to the Baker City Herald on Jan. 15.

The most recent confirmed attack by Frazier Mountain wolves was around Dec. 7, when wolves injured two adult cows on private land below Thief Valley Reservoir, according to ODFW.

Frazier Mountain wolves killed an eight-month-old calf around Nov. 18 on private land near Beagle Creek, and wolves attacked cattle on Oct. 6 and 9 on a public grazing allotment near the Powder River, killing an adult cow and an eight-month-old calf in separate attacks.