Imnaha Country

Pack kills cow at Grouse Creek Ranch

Imnaha pack wolves killed a cow Sunday December 10th at Eric Porter’s Grouse Creek Ranch on Upper Imnaha Road, state wildlife managers confirmed.

The fatal attack, confirmed by the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife’s wolf investigation team, was on a yearling heifer on private land, according to ODFW’s initial statement about the incident, released Monday morning.

According to Porter and Wallowa County Stockgrower’s Association president Todd Nash, ODFW telemetry from the radio collar of the Imnaha pack’s alpha male placed that wolf, known as OR-4, at Grouse Creek Ranch on Sunday morning.

Porter said the telemetry data indicated the wolf was actually in the very field from which the victim cow was chased. That was around 5 a.m. on Sunday, he said. Workers for the ranch found the cow’s carcass approximately a mile from the field about four hours later.

Porter said the cow was one of 81 that were scheduled for transport Monday to a southwest Idaho feedlot, where they would spend the winter.

The rancher said the cattle were badly spooked, apparently by wolves, early Sunday morning, causing them to run through a four-string barbed-wire fence, knocking down about 150 feet of it.

We were saddened to hear that former Imnaha Store owner/proprieter Lloyd Thomas “Tommy” Doss passed away in Enterprise on October, 25 2011 at the age of 91.

Lloyd became famous playing with some of the best Western music bands of the ’40s and ’50s.

Born in Weiser, Idaho in 1920, his family moved to La Grande, Oregon in 1922.

Lloyd met his wife Naomi Henderson in Hermiston, Oregon where they were married. They moved back to La Grande where in 1939 he formed his first band, Sons of the Grande Ronde. They played the local Elks Club and drove to Baker where they earned $12.50 per week performing on live radio.

In 1948 Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys cane to play in La Grand at Zuber Hall. While there Bob heard Lloyd perform and hired him on the spot. The Dosses left for California the next day, where he played with the Playboys, the Rythm Busters, and Ole Rasmusseen and his Nebraska Cornhuskers until he was recruited by the legendary Sons of the Pioneers to replace Bob Nolan in 1949. When Lloyd joined the Pioneers his stage name became “Tommy Doss’ as there was already a ‘Lloyd’ in the band with Lloyd Perriman.

Lloyd left touring with the Sons of the Pioneers in 1963 and he, Naomi and their youngest son moved to Imnaha and became owner/operators of  the Imnaha Store and Tavern. Naomi served as the Imnaha postmaster  until they sold the store in 1977.

Lloyd was inducted into the Western Music Association Hall of Fame November 21, 2008.

Lloyd and Naomi were members of the Enterprise Christian Church.

He was preceded in death by his parents and nine siblings.

He is survived by his wife Naomi of Wallowa; two sons and their wives, Dennis and Karolyne Doss of Wallowa and Tim and Carol Doss of Enterprise; four grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren.

Services were held at the Enterprise Christian Church Oct. 29, 2011.

Imnaha Post Office has operated continuously since Jan. 4, 1885, when Alexander B. Findley was appointed postmaster, according to “The Old and the New: History of the Post Offices in Wallowa County,” by Irene Barklow. Its first site was in Findley’s house about two miles above Big Sheep Creek. The post office was moved to the bridge on the Imnaha River, where it is now located, in 1901.

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01/03/2010

The Imnaha Store and Tavern is going back under the ownership of Dave and Salley Tanzey who owned it for 29 years before selling it last spring to Dave and Margaret Turner. The store has been shut down for about three weeks, but there is a sign on the door that says “Re-Opening Soon.”