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Brian Ratliff and Justin Primus are trudging through ankle-deep snow in Baker City’s Mount Hope Cemetery, tracking a mystery.
Well, a partial mystery.

The two wildlife biologists were in the cemetery, at the southeast side of the city between South Bridge Street and Interstate 84, around 9 a.m.

on Thursday, Feb. 6, because several hours earlier a Baker City Police officer, Mason Powell, shot and killed a 6-month-old female cougar in the cemetery.

Powell brought the carcass, which weighed 43 pounds, to the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife office in Baker City.

Ratliff is the district wildlife biologist, and Primus the assistant biologist.

The pair followed cougar tracks through parts of the cemetery and onto the sagebrush hill to the northeast, which is bisected by the Smith Ditch.

After about an hour of tracking, Ratliff and Primus concluded that all the tracks were made by the cougar that Powell shot.

The tracks were of the right size for the juvenile cougar, Ratliff said.

Although the biologists hadn’t had a chance to talk with Powell, whose shift ended at 7 a.m., they found a trail where the officer apparently had dragged the cougar from just above the Smith Ditch, several hundred yards northeast of the cemetery boundary fence, down the hill to the cemetery.