That's just depressing, I remember when there were more goat tags than sheep & moose combined, now it hardly looks worth it.
2012 status and trend report
The
harvest guidelines are to limit harvest opportunity to
4% or less of the total population, only allow harvest in
goat populations meeting or exceeding 100 total
animals, and limit harvest of nannies (females) to 30%
or less.
If we only counted herds of 100 or more goats and exclude all three national parks there would still be 71 permits at a 4% harvest. As it is we have less than a 1% tag to population ratio... Idaho has roughly the same number of goats and 53 tags. I don't think we have gotten an adequate reason for the disparity.
If the population was 10k animals in the 1950's and 60's with 0 harvest how long would it take to get the population back up to historic levels?
