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  • Wilderness or Game Farm?

    George Wuerthner

    The Forest Service and Utah Division of Wildlife Resources (UDWR) are conspiring to weaken the 1964 Wilderness Act. They propose to use helicopters to capture and radio-collar  exotic mountain goats which inhibit a few of the Wasatch Range wilderness areas like Lone Peak, Mount Timpanogos, Twin Peaks Wilderness Areas. In total, they will make at…

  • Mountain goats introduced to La Sal Mountains in Southeast Utah

    Ralph Maughan

    Trend of introducing mountain goats outside historic range continues- Utah’s Division of Wildlife has captured about 50 mountain goats from its thriving herd in the high Tushar Mountains of Southern Central Utah and released some of them into the photographically famous La Sal Mountains, east of Moab, near the Colorado border. Seeing and hunting the…

  • Release of mountain goats near Mt. Jefferson, Oregon seems to be working

    Ralph Maughan

    Release seemed to briefly stall, but now the goats are raising kids and expanding territory- In 2010 45 mountain goats were released on the east slopes of Mt. Jefferson, a tall volcano in Oregon’s Cascade Mountains. Soon 3 of them slipped to their death or were killed by predators. Most survived, however,  and last July…

  • Biologists fear mountain goat presence in Grand Teton park

    Ken Cole

    Mountain goats may compete with the struggling native bighorn sheep Grand Teton National Park officials are worried that mountain goats may increase in the Park and compete with bighorn sheep. The goats were introduced into the Snake River Range by the Idaho Department of Fish and Game and they have spread to the Teton Range.…

  • Mountain goat seen/photographed in Wyoming's Wind River Range

    Ralph Maughan

    Mountain goats were never native to Wyoming, although they have become established in YNP- Mountain goat in Wind River Range. By Mead Gruver. Associated Press writer. Goats are not native to Wyoming and have never been introduced for fear they will compete with bighorn sheep.

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