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Arrow removed from doe's neck in east Medford By Mark Freeman of the Mail Tribune Apr 29, 2020 11:08 AM A A State wildlife biologists were able to tranquilize a blacktail doe deer and remove a target arrow from its neck Wednesday morning in the East Medford hills in an eerie repeat of a similar Shady Cove case two years ago. The doe had an orange arrow through its neck. It was first discovered April 23 in the backyard of a house on Cloudcrest Drive off Hillcrest Road, but it disappeared before troopers could get there, according to the Oregon State Police. State police and Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife biologists had been searching off and on for the deer, and ODFW biologists Wednesday morning discovered the deer — with the arrow still through its neck — feeding with other blacktails on a Moon Terrace front lawn. “It took a bit of time following it because we can’t jump over all the fences and bushes like it can,” ODFW wildlife biologist Mathew Vargas said. Eventually, Vargas and fellow ODFW biologist Dylan Edwards cornered it about 8:30 a.m. and successfully fired a tranquilizer dart at it, Vargas said. The animal bounded away to a nearby backyard, where the biologists were given permission to enter. “We popped the arrow out and the deer strolled away 15 minutes later,” Vargas said. “It was about as good as you could hope for.” The arrow was seized as part of the investigation, said Sgt. Jim Collom of the OSP’s Fish and Wildlife Division in Central Point. The same tactic proved equally effective in 2018 when two deer within Shady Cove city limits were seen with target arrows embedded in them — one through the neck and the other in the head and mouth. Just like in the east Medford case, the arrows did not have broadheads used for hunting. Biologists tranquilized the deer, the arrows were removed and they escaped free in the Shady Cove case. After a three-month and a $2,600 reward, troopers were led to a Shady Cove man who was arrested on two felony counts of first-degree animal abuse and two wildlife misdemeanors. The man, Daniel Dwayne Logsdon, a convicted sex offender who was 36 years old at the time, had a March 26 trial canceled. He is due back in Jackson County Circuit Court for a trial conference July 27, court records show. Logsdon has been free on his own recognizance. Reach Mail Tribune reporter Mark Freeman at 541-776-4470 or [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter at www.twitter.com/MTwriterFreeman. file photoAn ODFW wildlife biologist works in 2018 to remove an arrow shot illegally through a deer in Shady Cove.