Regarding the Sept. 5 article, “Biologists try to solve mountain goat mystery”: It is no mystery that the goats need low elevation ancient trees for winter habitat. The numbers of goats have decreased 67 percent since the 1960s because a similar fraction of remaining old growth timber has been logged that was used by the goats around Darrington. The new radio tracking devices will show that the goats now go into logged areas because there is nowhere else to go, thus providing more junk science justifying yet more logging “for the good of the goats.”
W. Banning Vail, Ph.D.
Bothell
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