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For three summers, wildlife managers wrestled mountain goats in Washington state’s Olympic National Park, blindfolded them and then flew them into the far reaches of the state’s Cascade Range — an ...

The scene ends badly, as you might imagine. By Lesley Evans Ogden Mountain goats are high-elevation daredevils, learning to balance upon the steepest of rocky edifices soon after they are born.

A mountain goat billy in the Elkhorn Mountains. BAKER CITY — Chris Bocchi peered into the scope attached to the top of his rifle and prepared to complete a hunt that he had, in a sense, started almost ...

LA SAL, Utah — Tosh Black hiked down the trail with a smile on his face. He and his small hiking group had just seen one of the La Sal Mountains elusive creates – mountain goats. They tend to live ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — A pair of hikers say they happened upon a rare Rocky Mountain goat sighting on Mount Hood on July 27. Oregon resident Jackson Smith told KOIN 6 News that he was backpacking ...

This story, “My Goat Was High,” appeared in the August 1970 issue of Outdoor Life. RON MARTIN WAS NOT the silent type of guide. He lowered his 6X binoculars and gave me a dry grin. “There are your ...

PORT ANGELES – Park officials hope a count of mountain goats in the Olympic National Park and neighboring Olympic National Forest will help them better manage the herds. The surveys are part of a ...

This story, “Mountain Goat with a Handgun,” appeared in the June 1957 issue of Outdoor Life. I WAS WORKING my way around the last perpendicular cliff below camp when the wind and rain hit me, covering ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. An escaped mountain goat that somehow got ...