Contact Us 
Subscribe (It's Free)
Latest Updates on Hunt The West
Subscribe
|
|---|
Updates
Goats Versus Sheep in Colorado
May 26, 2010.
Colorado’s current mountain goat population was established as a result of transplants in 1940s from Montana, and again in the 1970s from Idaho and British Columbia.
Goats are doing quite well in Colorado’s vast mountain habitat -- so well, in fact, that they are out-competing native bighorn sheep populations, leading to debate over how to balance goat and sheep populations.
While the Division of Wildlife has in the past stated that the mountain goat is a native species in Colorado, this claim is based largely on very old fossil evidence which is more likely to be from the oreamnos harringtoni, a different, smaller, and now-extinct species of the goat.
The reality that mountain goats are not native to Colorado seems to be gaining prevalence when discussing goat management.
State wildlife managers now say they increasingly will control goat populations through hunting, which would limit the expansion of goats into areas inhabited by sheep.
Read more about the debate at the Denver Post: http://www.denverpost.com/ci_15148614
More Updates from Hunt The West ... Check us out on Twitter: www.twitter.com/HuntTheWest
Don't want to miss the latest updates?
Sign-up for a free subscription and we'll bring the news to you ...