Interesting find

[NOCK NOCK]

Was out on a hike during Muzzy Elk and found this. Picture is exactly how I found it, 1/2 mile-ish from a road, scattered bones.

Apparently another hunter found the tag and then set it on top of the skull. So many questions......Why didnt the original hunter take the tag, or the hunter that found it and placed on top of skull a year or two later? Was it ever reported? Odd that the tag was still near enough the remains and not packed of by a critter>

I called and left a message for both the veterinarian whose # was on it, and with the other attached phone # (assuming biologist) a guy named Scott ?

Very curious to find out the details, I had a cow on cam a year or 2 ago with a red ear tag...may be the same one.

[Henrydog]

that's cool...and odd.  The phone # is to a Wildlife Program Director

[emac]

Maybe a predator kill and that's why the tag was still there

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[NOCK NOCK]

Maybe a predator kill and that's why the tag was still there

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Thought about that, but doesn't explain why the tag was still right there and not drug/carried off, or eaten with the hide, AND how it ended up sitting on top of the white skull.

[Sutherland]

Yeah that's an interesting one for sure... Good find, thanks for sharing Nock.

[NOCK NOCK]

Got a call back from WDFW. The adult cow was tranqued and tagged in 2010. As far as they know, no one ever reported it as harvested so its a mystery on how it may have died, but 10+ years old for a cow in the Colockum is pretty old.

[cantstump]

Huh. Kinda neat. Thanks for following up on it

Got a call back from WDFW. The adult cow was tranqued and tagged in 2010. As far as they know, no one ever reported it as harvested so its a mystery on how it may have died, but 10+ years old for a cow in the Colockum is pretty old.

[Skyvalhunter]

I am assuming the infamous WDFW Bio Scott Fitkin

[Brushcrawler]

Cool find! Why is the bio infamous?

[TheStovePipeKid]

Cool find! Why is the bio infamous?

You see, he's more than famous, he's in-famous.

[NOCK NOCK]

I am assuming the infamous WDFW Bio Scott Fitkin

Could be, but it was a gal that I talked to.