Posted on 09/28/2020 1:28:44 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Federal and state organizations are up in arms over which modern warfare tactics should be deployed against a park’s goat population.
Wyoming’s Grand Teton National Park has a problem: Invasive mountain goats pose a life-threatening risk to the region’s bighorn sheep. In the name of protecting the native flock, the National Park Service and the state of Wyoming developed a plan for eradication in 2018, relying mostly on aerial sharpshooters to gun down the goats from helicopters. Although the NPS initially dismissed volunteer hunters as “ineffective,” they eventually allowed for a supplemental on-the-ground anti-goat op after a significant push from the state’s Game and Fish Department, the Daily Beast reported.
“This is every hunter’s dream,” said Wyoming Wildlife Advocates executive director Kristin Combs, according to the Daily Beast. “You’re letting them loose inside a national park to kill as many goats as possible.”
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I love goat. My favorite meat. We saw a lot of them in Estes CO
Turn wolves loose to eat the goats and protect the other wild life.
The terrain Mountain Goats chose to live in isn’t very accessible to anything but Mountain Goats. We’ve got Aoudad Sheep on the ranch and they stick to the rough limestone cliff’s where about the only thing that can get to them is Mountain Lion’s.
I think there was a joke in there.
A billy has to be castrated so that the testosterone doesnt contaminate the meat if you plan on eating it later.
Guess how they used to do that...
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