As to how the goat came to be on the bluffs, Wallner could only say, “There’s guesses. “People like to blame us, that it came from the Sutey Ranch” — a BLM-owned property north of Carbondale — “but it ...

That’s just sort of the cost of doing business in these extreme mountain environments,” said Kevin White, a wildlife ecologist who spent 17 years collecting data on alpine ...

Land managers have long worried about the convergence of mountain goats, bighorn sheep and masses of people on Mount Blue Sky ...

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 ...

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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.