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Mountain goat airlift gets underway in Olympic Mountains
From https://kval.com/outdoors/mountain-goat-airlift-gets-underway-in-olympic-mountains
Mountain goat airlift gets underway in Olympic Mountains
by KOMO Staff
Monday, September 10th 2018
A mountain goat is seen along Mount Zion trail in the Olympic Mountains. (U.S. Forest Service photo)
HURRICANE RIDGE, Wash. - After decades of discussion and study, the effort to relocate mountain goats from the Olympic Mountains to the North Cascades is finally underway.
Starting Monday, personnel from a collection of government agencies, Native American tribes and a specialized contractor will begin collecting the goats from their rocky, high-elevation perches in the Olympics and flying them by helicopter to their new digs east of Puget Sound.
Mountain goats are not native to the Olympic Peninsula, but were introduced there in the 1920s. Since then they have multiplied, and there now are about 725 of the goats living in the Olympics.
Meanwhile, there are low numbers of the goats in the North Cascades, where they are native. Both the U.S. Forest Service and the state Department of Fish & Wildlife have long been interested in removing the mountain goats from the Olympics and restoring them to the depleted areas in the Cascades.
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by KOMO Staff
Monday, September 10th 2018
A mountain goat is seen along Mount Zion trail in the Olympic Mountains. (U.S. Forest Service photo)
HURRICANE RIDGE, Wash. - After decades of discussion and study, the effort to relocate mountain goats from the Olympic Mountains to the North Cascades is finally underway.
Starting Monday, personnel from a collection of government agencies, Native American tribes and a specialized contractor will begin collecting the goats from their rocky, high-elevation perches in the Olympics and flying them by helicopter to their new digs east of Puget Sound.
Mountain goats are not native to the Olympic Peninsula, but were introduced there in the 1920s. Since then they have multiplied, and there now are about 725 of the goats living in the Olympics.
Meanwhile, there are low numbers of the goats in the North Cascades, where they are native. Both the U.S. Forest Service and the state Department of Fish & Wildlife have long been interested in removing the mountain goats from the Olympics and restoring them to the depleted areas in the Cascades.
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