BIGHORNtracks
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Utah has some goats where the national parks service does not want them.
In Dinosaur national monument.
Officials are trying to decide HOW to remove them. From the article "prompting officials to develop the "protocol for exotic Rocky Mountain goat restriction and removal." They are accepting public comment through March 9."
One option is to hire professionals to kill the goats, another is to allow hunters to draw a special tag and harvest them.
This will most likely not be a one time issue. Goats tend to wander and migrate.
The protocol that is established now, will probably be the protocol from removing goats from the park, in the future.
If tax payer dollars are used to hire professional hunters to kill the goats, we will lose opportunities for hunters to get back, what was put into the recourse by introducing the goats to the uinta mountains.
Public comment is open. Even you don't live in Utah, setting a precedent with the NPS is important for future issues in other states.
Please respond to the open comment period and let them know that if the goats must be removed, it should be done by hunters who draw tags. Not wasted by some hired extermination unit.
For the article.
http://www.sltrib.com/home/3514002-155/national-park-officials-plan-to-shoot?fullpage=1
In Dinosaur national monument.
Officials are trying to decide HOW to remove them. From the article "prompting officials to develop the "protocol for exotic Rocky Mountain goat restriction and removal." They are accepting public comment through March 9."
One option is to hire professionals to kill the goats, another is to allow hunters to draw a special tag and harvest them.
This will most likely not be a one time issue. Goats tend to wander and migrate.
The protocol that is established now, will probably be the protocol from removing goats from the park, in the future.
If tax payer dollars are used to hire professional hunters to kill the goats, we will lose opportunities for hunters to get back, what was put into the recourse by introducing the goats to the uinta mountains.
Public comment is open. Even you don't live in Utah, setting a precedent with the NPS is important for future issues in other states.
Please respond to the open comment period and let them know that if the goats must be removed, it should be done by hunters who draw tags. Not wasted by some hired extermination unit.
For the article.
http://www.sltrib.com/home/3514002-155/national-park-officials-plan-to-shoot?fullpage=1