Sunday, February 09, 2020

There is a cow killer in Oregon on federal land and no one seems to take jurisdiction.

This is legitimate and fairly benign use of federal land. There are one or more people involved in killing cows. A GoPro camera at the watering tank costs a whole lot less than than a lost cow does.

Wrong is wrong and this is just wrong. If people don't want federal land used for ranching then what do they want it used for? It is somewhat silly to let it lie fallow. Ranchers rent the land legitimately all the time. What is the issue? If the cows are doing damage to the land that is a legitimate complaint to make about the problem, but, this is not the way to do it.

February 6, 2020
By Anna King

...“I wonder if they wanted us to find it to spook us. (click here) I don’t know,” he said.

Wiberg said there were a few thrash marks where the cow had moved around on the ground.

One other detail was strange.

Wiberg got really sick after he touched the dead cow.

“He was throwing up,” said Clancy Roth. “We don’t know if he got a flu bug, or ate something – but he went out there looked at that cow and touched her and then that night he wasn’t fine.”

Clancy Roth says that Wilberg was the only person from the ranch who got sick, and the only one who touched the cow....