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Big Game Hunting => Other Big Game => Topic started by: jackelope on February 23, 2018, 11:37:53 AM
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Monday March 26th 7-9pm, Sultan, WA City Hall office.
There are a ton of varying opinions on this topic. I think I'd like to see them moved to the North Cascades, but am open to hearing others' opinions.
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Good meeting, but holding it in Sultan? Really? Does anyone live in Sultan? Talk about out of the way. I'm guessing they don't want a lot of people at that meeting.
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Good meeting, but holding it in Sultan? Really? Does anyone live in Sultan? Talk about out of the way. I'm guessing they don't want a lot of people at that meeting.
Agreed. These meetings always seem to be in weird places.
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Is there any historic goat range in Washington that doesn't have goats - or is severely underpopulated?
It would be cool to re-establish them into historical range.
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I wont be able to go but ill be looking forward to an update.
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Wish they would just leave them and continue issuing tags. They will learn to avoid humans. They've been up there a long time, greenies need to learn not go near them.
And wish that meeting was closer to the affected area. Its like having a Moose meeting in Westport.
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Wish they would just leave them and continue issuing tags. They will learn to avoid humans. They've been up there a long time, greenies need to learn not go near them.
And wish that meeting was closer to the affected area. Its like having a Moose meeting in Westport.
Its more about taking away a nonnative species while not euthanizing them.
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Wish they would just leave them and continue issuing tags. They will learn to avoid humans. They've been up there a long time, greenies need to learn not go near them.
And wish that meeting was closer to the affected area. Its like having a Moose meeting in Westport.
Its more about taking away a nonnative species while not euthanizing them.
Ya, I know. Just wish they would leave them. Creates more opportunity for hunters. And they aren't doing that much damage.
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Also whats the big deal some old guy gets run over by one and they act like its the end of the world!! :chuckle:
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Wish they would just leave them and continue issuing tags. They will learn to avoid humans. They've been up there a long time, greenies need to learn not go near them.
And wish that meeting was closer to the affected area. Its like having a Moose meeting in Westport.
Its more about taking away a nonnative species while not euthanizing them.
Ya, I know. Just wish they would leave them. Creates more opportunity for hunters. And they aren't doing that much damage.
They're hopefully creating more opportunities for hunters in areas where they are supposed to be. And they won't promote shooting nannies, aka the first goat you see, like they do now thereby letting the herd grow.
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Good meeting, but holding it in Sultan? Really? Does anyone live in Sultan? Talk about out of the way. I'm guessing they don't want a lot of people at that meeting.
Agreed. These meetings always seem to be in weird places.
Maybe they are short of funds and this is an economical venue.
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Good meeting, but holding it in Sultan? Really? Does anyone live in Sultan? Talk about out of the way. I'm guessing they don't want a lot of people at that meeting.
Agreed. These meetings always seem to be in weird places.
Maybe they are short of funds and this is an economical venue.
Hopefully there's a logical reason somewhere.
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If they redirected some of the consultant's funds they could hold it in the Tacoma Dome.
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Is there any historic goat range in Washington that doesn't have goats - or is severely underpopulated?
It would be cool to re-establish them into historical range.
I would like to see their population bolstered in the ALW and GPW so we can eventually get to hunt them in those areas.
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If they redirected some of the consultant's funds they could hold it in the Tacoma Dome.
:chuckle: :chuckle: :chuckle:
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I think adding to the glacier peak wilderness herd would be best. I think there is a huntable population in there now. Maybe adding a few will create a hunt :dunno:
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I have hunted quite a bit up out of the Skykomish area, have yet to see a goat in there but have found lots of hair in the trees and brush.
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The ONP goal is to get the goats out of the park.. My guess is they will make an effort to relocate some of the goats but when the easy ones are netted and moved and the costs rise the guns will come out and the rest will die.. With the costs of flying and all involved in relocation the latter will be an easy out.. I hope not but my faith in the system is not high. The sad truth is the habitat up there is perfect mt goat country but without management by hunting and taking some goats every year the herd numbers are too high . It would be so easy to close a trail system for a week and take a couple goats with some guided hunters and rotate that through the high population areas and create revenue for the park instead of spending millions and raising access fees for everyone. I know this post wasn't about whether this was the right thing or not to do but I won't ever support the ONP desire to get rid of the goats based on the "feel good idea" we are relocating them all to a huntable area. If they actually do this will I volunteer to help, absolutely I will as I love mountain goats its just sad we are forced into this by a bunch of hippy park lovers who have forgotten why the park was created. Recreation includes hunting and fishing not just hiking and smelling the flowers and listening for a wolf to howl...
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Does anyone know of any genetic work carried out on the Olympic population of goats? On Baranof Island, AK with no known historic population and a similar scenario as the Olympics (glacial refugia, large historic native population, similar mountains, etc.) that DNA work supported the fact there were a few, very isolated native goat populations that bred into the introduced population (samples from Baranof goats had genetic markers not found in the donor populations) . I know that NPS has done everything it can to discredit the possibility there were ever goats on the peninsula and genetic tests may disprove their stance. I would personally love to see this goat population remain as is with limited hunting on problem goat groups.
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nwhunter, way too much logic for wdfw. Yours is the only reasonable action. Seed the Sultan meeting with about 50 with your thoughts.
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The park relocated goats before and it was extremely expensive. They had helicopters, sharpshooters w/tranquilizers, bios, etc. Then they had greeny lawsuits. The park was convinced that they got enough of them that the remaining goats had a low enough population that they would die off from inbreeding.
I think they just allow a special hunting season to kill of the goats and actually make money in the process. A couple other national parks allow hunting for things like elk.
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Leaf lickers are scared of a little goat, wait until someone gets mauled by a grizzly over here in the NE. They will probably be silent.
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Good meeting, but holding it in Sultan? Really? Does anyone live in Sultan? Talk about out of the way. I'm guessing they don't want a lot of people at that meeting.
:yike:
It's less out of the way for a lot of people than Olympia. And, YES, some people live in Sultan. I do, part time anyways. :chuckle:
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I’m 30 or so minutes from Sultan, Loki. Not a big deal for me either. But we’re the exception, not the rule.
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I can relocate 2 or 3 to my freezer. Those goats would slowly dissipate from there.
That would take part of the pressure off for some time and nobody would get hurt in the process. :IBCOOL:
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Meeting times and locations are set. Ill be at the Woolley meeting.
Meetings planned on mountain goat relocation to native habitat in North Cascades
https://wdfw.wa.gov/news/mar0618b/ (https://wdfw.wa.gov/news/mar0618b/)
OLYMPIA – Four meetings are scheduled in late March to enable northwest Washington residents to learn more about a proposal to move mountain goats from Olympic National Park to the North Cascades during the summers of 2018 and 2019.
The public is invited to hear a presentation and speak with representatives of the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) and Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) during meetings in Sedro Woolley, Darrington, North Bend, and Sultan.
The National Park Service, in collaboration with the two agencies, has prepared a draft environmental impact statement (EIS) for a mountain goat management plan to remove them from Olympic National Park to reduce damage to the park's natural resources – especially native vegetation – and to protect public safety.
The preferred alternative in the draft EIS calls for relocating some of the mountain goats from the park and nearby Forest Service lands to their native habitat in the Mount Baker-Snoqualmie and Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forests.
The Park Service is expected to issue a final EIS this spring.
Meetings are scheduled for:
•Tuesday, March 20, 7 to 9 p.m.
Mt. Baker Ranger District Office, Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest
810 State Route 20
Sedro Woolley
•Wednesday, March 21, 7:30 to 8:30 p.m.
Darrington Library Meeting Room
1005 Cascade St.
Darrington
(Note: The presentation will be made during the last segment of the meeting of Darrington Strong)
•Thursday, March 22, 7 to 9 p.m.
Snoqualmie Ranger District Office, Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest
902 SE North Bend Way
North Bend
•Monday, March 26, 7 to 9 p.m.
Sultan City Hall Meeting Room
319 Main St., #200
Sultan
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Thanks for posting that.
I'd like to say I'll be at the North Bend meeting. I will definitely try.
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The meeting was interesting there was only a hand full of people not there in official capacity. Farm and ranch reps, trail association, city and county council members, plus member of wdfw, USFS, Etc.
If I understood everything correctly relocation, if accepted, would be this year and next year, 2, two week periods in July and September in high goat density, predetermined areas. Capture, tag, collar as many goats as possible during each period, all goats that are healthy and not kids will be crated and put into a refrigeration truck for transport and relocate. Once at the relocation a heli would bring the crates into the backcountry for release. 20-25 goats per relocation site so that a viable population is released.
Kids will be sent to accepting and willing Zoos because their survival rate is very low in the cases of trapping and transporting.
Release sites are between I90 and HWY20. No goats will be dropped in the NCNP. Release sites are only in areas with adiquate habitat, a history of strong goat populations, and low current goat numbers.
After two years it is assumed that goat numbers in the park will show a hit and that viable populations will not be present for trap and transport so the next phase is... well I’ll let you go to the meeting and find out.
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Was there any talk of keeping the conflict hunt tag after the relocation effort to control population outside the park?
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Was there any talk of keeping the conflict hunt tag after the relocation effort to control population outside the park?
No because the goal is to have a nonviable goat population in 5 years.
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Still crap if you ask me. NPS will hopefully get their budget pulled for this ridiculously expensive boondoggle.
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Release sites are between I90 and HWY20. No goats will be dropped in the NCNP. Release sites are only in areas with adiquate habitat, a history of strong goat populations, and low current goat numbers.
After two years it is assumed that goat numbers in the park will show a hit and that viable populations will not be present for trap and transport so the next phase is... well I’ll let you go to the meeting and find out.
Hope they have identified why areas with a history of strong goat populations now have low current numbers" If that isn't addressed, plopping a new population there will not necessarily fix the problem and most or all of the goats may be gone in a short time. This may just end up being the most expensive way to kill them.
Also, just because they assume after two years that the park population won't be viable, doesn't mean it won't be viable. If they don't get every goat, this problem can come back in the future.
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Cyclic
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Still crap if you ask me. NPS will hopefully get their budget pulled for this ridiculously expensive boondoggle.
I hope that this capture is more successful than planned.
1) These goats were brought to the peninsula by hunters and conservationists, if the parks department doesn't want them then we should want to put them into areas that will help existing goat populations.
2) The vast majority of goats on the peninsula are in the park and outside of any legal hunting boundary's so the only way to currently control the population, if the park decided to keep them, is lethal removal by government sharp shooters. This costs the tax payers more over time than the permanent removal of goats.
3) The parks department, USFS, WDFW have identified rock formations that create vegetation and minerals needed for goats to thrive, these areas correlate with historic goat harvests and these areas will be augmented by the Olympic goats. Transferring these goats will also create a larger genetic pool of goats in the North Cascades.
It is true that the end goal of nonviable populations may be difficult to do but if that is what the parks department is going to do then lets move as many goats as we can in the mean time.
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Still crap if you ask me. NPS will hopefully get their budget pulled for this ridiculously expensive boondoggle.
I hope that this capture is more successful than planned.
1) These goats were brought to the peninsula by hunters and conservationists, if the parks department doesn't want them then we should want to put them into areas that will help existing goat populations.
2) The vast majority of goats on the peninsula are in the park and outside of any legal hunting boundary's so the only way to currently control the population, if the park decided to keep them, is lethal removal by government sharp shooters. This costs the tax payers more over time than the permanent removal of goats.
3) The parks department, USFS, WDFW have identified rock formations that create vegetation and minerals needed for goats to thrive, these areas correlate with historic goat harvests and these areas will be augmented by the Olympic goats. Transferring these goats will also create a larger genetic pool of goats in the North Cascades.
It is true that the end goal of nonviable populations may be difficult to do but if that is what the parks department is going to do then lets move as many goats as we can in the mean time.
:yeah:
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Last night the meeting was in North Bend, small turn out, yet a sincere group with interest about project. Still appears to be no plans for predator control, 2/3 of the goats will have GPS collars and trackable or traceable. No doubt most of the goats from the park will have a destiny of death. Why there isn't more mortality in the park still makes no since. I'm sure there has to be come cougars there also. Several of those attending last night were more concerned about their own personal safety around goats, and if wolves were going to be of concern on mortality.
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Several of those attending last night were more concerned about their own personal safety around goats, and if wolves were going to be of concern on mortality.
This is the most lame excuse for moving the goats that there is. First off, what, has there been more than one incident with a goat and a human in the park? And second off, if goats are really dangerous, moving them will not change that fact. You are more likely to be injured driving to the park than you are likely to be hurt by a goat once you get there. Talk about making a mountain out of a molehill.
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For me it will be sad to see this hunt opportunity go. I've personally been involved in 3 of the conflict reduction hunts in the past 4 years as a "volunteer" guide for forum members. It's one of the most physically demanding hunts in the state into some remarkable places. When I was scouting and talking to bios 5 years ago they said this hunt would only be available for a few years.
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But not in a National Park you haven't.
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But not in a National Park you haven't.
No shots were fired from a NP :tup:
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But not in a National Park you haven't.
No shots were fired from a NP :tup:
He "volunteer guided" my boy, and I am still grateful.
And..... no shots were fired from the NP. :-)
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But not in a National Park you haven't.
No shots were fired from a NP :tup:
He "volunteer guided" my boy, and I am still grateful.
And..... no shots were fired from the NP. :-)
And not one photo for HW?
Come on man!
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Did anyone make it to yesterday's meeting in Sultan?
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So the safety is 1 concern Really and yet you want the wolf to be trans planted there
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Monday March 26th 7-9pm, Sultan, WA City Hall office.
There are a ton of varying opinions on this topic. I think I'd like to see them moved to the North Cascades, but am open to hearing others' opinions.
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Where was the public notification of these meetings published at? Did WDFW send out a public notification via email? Likewise do you know where the NPS published notifications for these meetings?
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https://www.bing.com/search?q=Meetings+planned+on+mountain+goat+relocation+to+native+habitat+in+North+Cascades&qs=n&form=QBLH&sp=-1&pq=meetings+planned+on+mountain+goat+relocation+to+native+habitat+in+north+cascades&sc=1-80&sk=&cvid=DB9200AD42AF4E76A5CB4A69763E6B8F (https://www.bing.com/search?q=Meetings+planned+on+mountain+goat+relocation+to+native+habitat+in+North+Cascades&qs=n&form=QBLH&sp=-1&pq=meetings+planned+on+mountain+goat+relocation+to+native+habitat+in+north+cascades&sc=1-80&sk=&cvid=DB9200AD42AF4E76A5CB4A69763E6B8F)
Meetings were posted on WDFW’s news feed and through local tv, print and online news sources.
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Monday March 26th 7-9pm, Sultan, WA City Hall office.
There are a ton of varying opinions on this topic. I think I'd like to see them moved to the North Cascades, but am open to hearing others' opinions.
(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180223/8ea56a47cccae6405f55fb3dafb0d553.jpg)
Where was the public notification of these meetings published at? Did WDFW send out a public notification via email? Likewise do you know where the NPS published notifications for these meetings?
This is the email I got from WDFW on 3/6/2018:
WDFW NEWS RELEASE
Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife
600 Capitol Way North, Olympia, WA 98501-1091
http://wdfw.wa.gov/
March 6, 2018
Contact: Rich Harris, (360) 902-8134
Meetings planned on mountain goat
relocation to native habitat in North Cascades
OLYMPIA – Four meetings are scheduled in late March to enable northwest Washington residents to learn more about a proposal to move mountain goats from Olympic National Park to the North Cascades during the summers of 2018 and 2019.
The public is invited to hear a presentation and speak with representatives of the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) and Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) during meetings in Sedro Woolley, Darrington, North Bend, and Sultan.
The National Park Service, in collaboration with the two agencies, has prepared a draft environmental impact statement (EIS) for a mountain goat management plan to remove them from Olympic National Park to reduce damage to the park's natural resources – especially native vegetation – and to protect public safety.
The preferred alternative in the draft EIS calls for relocating some of the mountain goats from the park and nearby Forest Service lands to their native habitat in the Mount Baker-Snoqualmie and Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forests.
The Park Service is expected to issue a final EIS this spring.
Meetings are scheduled for:
•Tuesday, March 20, 7 to 9 p.m.
Mt. Baker Ranger District Office, Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest
810 State Route 20
Sedro Woolley
•Wednesday, March 21, 7:30 to 8:30 p.m.
Darrington Library Meeting Room
1005 Cascade St.
Darrington
(Note: The presentation will be made during the last segment of the meeting of Darrington Strong)
•Thursday, March 22, 7 to 9 p.m.
Snoqualmie Ranger District Office, Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest
902 SE North Bend Way
North Bend
•Monday, March 26, 7 to 9 p.m.
Sultan City Hall Meeting Room
319 Main St., #200
Sultan
Persons with disabilities who need to receive this information in an alternative format or who need reasonable accommodations to participate in WDFW-sponsored public meetings or other activities may contact Dolores Noyes by phone (360-902-2349), TTY (360-902-2207), or email (dolores.noyes@dfw.wa.gov). For more information, see http://wdfw.wa.gov/accessibility/reasonable_request.html.
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This was on their website:
https://wdfw.wa.gov/news/mar0618b/
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NPS:
https://parkplanning.nps.gov/projectHome.cfm?projectID=49246
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That's cool, Thanks for your time.
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Looking forward to helpling out on this project :tup:
Curious to know how you got there?
I emailed Rich Harris almost immediately and haven’t gotten a response.