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No kidding: Why these goats had to fly away (Video)
BBC.com ^ | 9/14/18 | BBC

Posted on 09/14/2018 3:02:57 PM PDT by NormsRevenge

Hundreds of mountain goats are evicted from Olympic National Park in Washington state because they like human sweat and pee and are gobbling native vegetation.

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Outdoors; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: goats; washingtonstate
They should ship them to SF and have them work the streets..

Probably do a better job cleaning them and they're cute and cuddly, unlike the hardcore homeless and City Hall.

The goats are non-native having been introduced to the area in the 1920s.

1 posted on 09/14/2018 3:02:57 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
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Federal, state agencies announce plan to move goats to Cascades via helicopter

https://www.theolympian.com/latest-news/article218060560.html

Beginning on Monday, a coalition of state and federal agencies will start to move mountain goats from Olympic National Park to the northern Cascade Mountains, according to a news release from the National Park Service, state Department of Fish and Wildlife and the U.S. Forest Service.

The move is aimed at re-establishing the depleted mountain goat populations in the Washington Cascades, and reduce problems caused in the Olympics by the non-native goats.

In May, the Park Service released its final Mountain Goat Management Plan that outlines the effort to remove the estimated 725 mountain goats on the Olympic Peninsula. Both the plan and the associated environmental impact statement were finalized after an public review process that began in 2014.

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2 posted on 09/14/2018 3:05:10 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Monthly Donors Rock!!!)
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3 posted on 09/14/2018 3:05:57 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Monthly Donors Rock!!!)
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4 posted on 09/14/2018 3:08:02 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Monthly Donors Rock!!!)
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To: NormsRevenge

What does it matter that the goats are said to ‘like’ human excretions, and who’s making that claim?


5 posted on 09/14/2018 3:21:24 PM PDT by lee martell (AT)
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To: NormsRevenge
Pretty good eating unless it's a Billy during the rut.
A friend took his son goat hunting in the Chilkat mountains, northern SE Alaska and they shot two the first day - only to have three grizzlies show up and steal two backpacks full of de-boned goat meat. With nary a thank you, he said.
6 posted on 09/14/2018 3:25:49 PM PDT by dainbramaged (If you want a friend, rescue a pit bull.)
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To: NormsRevenge

Norm, there has to be some good captions for that first
pic.

Honey, you said you got the lowest fairs on priceline?


7 posted on 09/14/2018 3:29:49 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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Oops, fares not fairs.

Drugged, hobbled, and blindfolded is no way to see the sights.


8 posted on 09/14/2018 3:31:19 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: NormsRevenge

Not stated in the video is the goats in the park that can’t be caught will be killed.

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/environment/mountain-goat-relocation-begins-in-olympic-national-park/


9 posted on 09/14/2018 3:32:26 PM PDT by chief lee runamok (mongrel at large)
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To: NormsRevenge

Like most critters, they need salt. A few boxes of free salt would have curbed the problem, unless a whole bunch of people are running around Olympic Park peeing on everything,, in which case free salt wouldn’t be very effective. Which begs the question - what are the people visiting Olympic Park Reallllly doing at night that led to the ruin and banishment of goats?


10 posted on 09/14/2018 3:34:26 PM PDT by blueplum ( "...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017)
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To: blueplum

A hiker was killed in 2010 by one of those mountain goats and last year another man had to shoot one that was being aggressive. They can be dangerous.


11 posted on 09/14/2018 4:09:15 PM PDT by dainbramaged (If you want a friend, rescue a pit bull.)
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To: NormsRevenge

Because everyone knows that dressing up goats like batman and sling-loading them beneath a helicopter is less stressful than putting them in a cattle truck...


12 posted on 09/14/2018 4:38:32 PM PDT by Thunder 6
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Can’t get a truck to many of these alpine locations in the Olympics. This is not Kansas.


13 posted on 09/14/2018 4:43:19 PM PDT by steve86 (Prophecies of Maelmhaedhoc O'Morgair (Latin form: Malachy))
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I’ve lived there and hiked many of the ONF trails. Dump the beasties off at the trail-heads...they’ll find their way up hill...

Regards,


14 posted on 09/14/2018 5:34:05 PM PDT by Thunder 6
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15 posted on 09/14/2018 5:39:06 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (Leave the job, leave the clearance. It should be the same rule for the Swamp as for everyone else.)
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To: KarlInOhio

Ouch!


16 posted on 09/14/2018 5:43:03 PM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: NormsRevenge

All they had to do is let people hunt them.

No, they had to spend millions


17 posted on 09/15/2018 5:50:48 AM PDT by dila813 (Voting for Trump to Punish Trumpets!)
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