Posted on 01/05/2020 11:32:55 AM PST by LucyT
An operation to kill mountain goats that have invaded Grand Teton National Park and threaten the existence of the park’s struggling Bighorn Sheep herd is beginning Sunday, officials said.
Wish I was still fit enough to hunt mountain goats.
Awesome! Damn Dirty Goats- Hated that movie planet of the goats-
They must be refugee mountain goats.
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Get rid of em, before muzzies start swarming the Grand Tetons looking for dates.
Betcha that’s why they’re in mourning in Iran and London.
Who decided sheep were more important than goats?
There’s more than 100 on land that can support several hundred. So, what’s the problem?
Suuure, they’re going to retrieve the dead goats. And I’m the Queen of England. All the helicopters and gun shots will scare off any animal that would be grateful for a meal this time of year so the carcasses will lay there and become poisoned. Brilliant idea - not.
Where did the “invasive” goats invade from? Local farmers? Seems so since they started out as 10-15 goats. So, fine the farmers for not rounding them back up into their pens. Perhaps, forbid any goats within so many miles of the parks.
Seems there is a much better way to deal with this. Allow hunters in now instead of after breeding season.
“a collaborative effort with the California Department of Wildlife” Uh huh, KNEW this wacky idea came from CA. CA is too squeamish to cut dead brush but they’re fine killing babies and goats for no real reason.
I read something somewhere about separating sheep from goats...hmm.
Jesus’ words had to do with meek sheep and aggressive goats. I raised goats and they were just fine to be around so not taking that literally. Every animal can be aggressive.
Sheep are more distructive to the land than goats. Remember in the cattle rancher days. The ranchers were against having the sheep move in because sheep eat at the ground where the new vegetation tries to grow. Goats forage higher up when the vegetation has matured. One would think the park officials would want the goats.
Bottom line, don’t kill animals for killing’s sake.
I agree, if you ain’t going to actually eat it, then don’t do it. I have never personally shot anything I did not eat in whole. It would be unsportsmanlike to do so.
On the back of the menu was a replica of the food choices from days gone by. It included BBQ goat. Our waitress, an older lady, remarked that it was "some real fine goat."
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Where did the “invasive” goats invade from?
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These are not nanny goats and meadow maggots. They’re wild animals.
Most surrealistic thing I’ll read today.
In Colorado sheep and goats live on the same mountains, and I don’t think they compete all that much. The mountain goats are fabulous climbers, and will stay around slopes and rocky areas that give them a defensive advantage. The sheep are good climbers, but not as much as the goats, and are willing to go into valleys and pastures to graze.
All our bighorns are already dead so we’ll take them for the Tucson mountains.
How does a mountain goat menace a bighorn sheep? Isn’t the latter much larger with larger horns?
I would think a headbutt by a bighorn would knock a mountain goat into next week. Like getting hit by a truck.
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