Tagged: Olympic National Forest

Olympic Mountain Goats
6:49 am
Tue October 2, 2012

Rangers Say Hazing Of Aggressive Mountain Goats Is Working

Credit Photo courtesy Wash. Fish & Wildlife Dept.
USFS wildlife biologist Kurt Aluzas demonstrates "aversive conditioning."

Forest and park rangers on Washington's Olympic Peninsula say they've reduced the risk from aggressive mountain goats. They did it by hazing the animals for much of the summer. Olympic National Forest reopened a popular hiking trail Monday. Correspondent Tom Banse has the story from Mount Ellinor, near Hoodsport, Washington.

For the past three months, the steep trail up Mount Ellinor has been closed. The reason for that is that multiple hiking parties reported feeling threatened by insistent mountain goats.

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