Skagit Valley Herald
The National Park Service approved plans this week to relocate mountain goats from the Olympics to the North Cascades.
Relocations will begin this summer, according to a news release.
The National Park Service, in partnership with other federal and state agencies, has been planning since 2014 ways to reduce the impacts of nonnative mountain goats in the Olympics and increase the presence of mountain goats where they are native, in the North Cascades.
The plan is to move about 360 goats from the Olympics to the North Cascades over the next few years. The rest of the goats in the Olympics would be killed.
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