It’s been discussed on here already. Couple of bullet points:
-there is some management hunting taking place already in the park, so claiming a man anti hunting conspiracy on behalf of the NPS doesn’t hold much water. Though, if you want to go that route, FB hunting groups are on fire.
-the terrain. Have you been in the Tetons? Not on a hike but in goat country. It’s largely 5th class. Few hunters would be capable of getting to these goats. If you think you could make the cover of the next KUIU magazine, have experience with alpine climbing, then This is your hunt.
-ID tried to use hunters to exterminate a herd of goats and the hunters failed.
-how long would it take hunters to eradicate this herd? Years? Perhaps once the decision was made, they just wanted to get it done. If you issued 100 goat tags to 100 hunters and the success rate were 20%..... do the math. Best case scenario, 8 years from now, a handful of breeding of goats would still be eluding hunters and the few guys who are successful would most Milkey be one and done. Hunters aren’t very good at eradication. Few hunters are cut out for goat hunting and even fewer are cut out for hunting goats in this particular terrain.