Oregon State Police fish and wildlife troopers are investigating two cases of wastage involving at least six deer in recent weeks.
In the most recent case, a person yesterday reported finding a “large amount of deer meat” including backstraps, front and rear quarters and hearts of deer dumped in the bushes along a rural road in Clackamas County about 17 miles southeast of Oregon City.
A trooper responding to the scene on Port Blakely Tree Farm land off South Elwood Road just past the junction with South Benzinger Road near Colton believes that the four deer were butchered elsewhere and then the meat was tossed into the brush between Halloween and Sunday, November 2.
Three of the four are believed to have been killed by bow…