The mountain goat population appears to be growing on Central Oregon's Mount Jefferson, two years after Oregon and the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs returned the high-climbing animals to the peak.
State wildlife officials have identified the man who has been spotted dressed in a goat suit among a herd of wild goats in the mountains of northern Utah.
Free hunter orange hats will be given to youth hunters that plan to hunt the fall 2011 season, to help kids meet new regulations requiring they wear the color.
A Bernese Mountain dog that raced off after a mountain goat in Washington's Olympic Mountains and fell 150 feet down a cliff survived for nearly three days until a volunteer mountain rescue team managed to find her.
Visitors to Olympic National Park are being urged not to urinate along trails frequented by mountain goats, to avoid attracting goats. The measure was OK'd in the wake of the goring death of Port Angeles resident Bob Boardman.
Jim Decker was hiking on the Olympic Peninsula when he noticed he was being trailed. "That (goat) had been stalking him, trying to gore him, charging him for about a mile and a half on the Mount Rose Trail," said wife Cindy Decker.
From a press release
The Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission will meet Friday, March 11 in the Pacific Room of the Driftwood Shores Resort, 88416 1st Avenue in Florence.
The meeting begins at 8 a.m. and follows this agenda
The Commission will...
Learn about Oregon’s top predators, gray wolves and cougars, as the Discovering Wildlife Speaker Series kicks off with a free presentation by state wildlife biologists on Wednesday, Feb. 16, in Portland.
Olympic National Park wildlife biologist Patti Happe this week will assist in a necropsy of a goat that killed a hiker, as part of the investigation into what happened Saturday.