State and federal officials moved 325 goats from the Olympic Peninsula to maintain safety and help bolster the overall population. It didn’t turn out well.
NORTH CASCADE, Wash. — By 2020, hundreds of mountain goats had been moved from the Olympic Peninsula to the North Cascade Mountains.
Researchers tracked 151 of them. To this day, only four of them are known to be alive.
Still, experts say the project was not a failure.
Crews used tranquilizer darts before blindfolding the creatures for their helicopter journeys to their new environment.
The goats were introduced to the Olympic Peninsula in the 1920s
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