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Olympic National Park has released a mountain goat management plan:
The mountain goats at Olympic National Park in Washington have worn out their their welcome and park officials are moving ahead with plans to get rid of them. On Monday the National Park Service released a mountain goat management plan, laying out three methods of dealing with the population, which park officials say not only is damaging the environment but is dangerous to people.
One method is killing the animals with shotguns or high-powered rifles. The other is relocating them. And the last option is a combination of the two. That is the preferred plan but would likely take years, said Louise Johnson, the park's chief of resources management.
First helicopters would capture the goats in drop nets. Next a crew would tranquilize the animals, putting them in slings under the helicopter, which would carry them to a staging area. From there, they would be placed in trucks and driven hours to their natural habitat in the North Cascade Mountains. Some of the goats — roughly half — Johnson estimates, would have to be killed because crews wouldn't be able to access them in remote, rugged terrain.
There are an estimated 600 mountain goats in the park today and the population is growing by about 8 percent a year, Johnson said.
(Score: 2) by jelizondo on Wednesday July 26 2017, @03:44AM (3 children)
True story, honest to goodness. A lady, may she rest in peace, travelled for the first time to Mexico, specifically to Tijuana. Being born and raised in a smaller city in Georgia, she’s afraid of any real Mexican food so she orders a burger.
How bad could a burger be, even in made in Mexico? Well, turns out it was a goat-meat burger! She hated it.
In time she learned to like Mexican food even goat and actually spent the last years of her life living in Mexico, where she died.
So yes, let’s eat the goats!
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday July 28 2017, @12:53AM (2 children)
The moral of the story is, living in Mexico is fatal? Hmmmm . . .
(Score: 3, Interesting) by jelizondo on Friday July 28 2017, @04:19AM (1 child)
Living is fatal. 100% mortality rate.
She died of lung cancer, caused by smoking a lifetime, after having a very good and long time, unimaginable for a girl from Savannah, Georgia. She went from a poor family to living (and owning) a 10 million dollar house right on the beach.
May she rest in peace.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday July 28 2017, @05:54PM
"Living is fatal. 100% mortality rate."
That is the best of all possible answers, of course.
"May she rest in peace."
I'll ditto that one.