Olympic National Park, located in Washington state's Olympic Peninsula, is faced with a daunting challenge: removing a ballooning mountain goat population that's developed a strong appetite for human pee.
Mountain goats aren't a native species in the park. Since their introduction in the 1920s, their numbers have blossomed into a staggering 700 ungulates. Now, with humans flooding the area and routinely relieving themselves on various hiking trails, the goats have developed an insatiable thirst for urine, which serves as a strong source of salt and minerals.
Mountain goats can be a nuisance along trails and around wilderness campsites where they persistently seek salt and minerals from human urine, packs, and sweat on clothing. They often paw and dig areas on the ground where hikers have urinated or disposed of cooking wastewater.
Goats that "paw and dig" at the earth have posed a detriment to the environment, according to the NPS. Unrelated to lapping up urine are the general safety concerns of interacting with a swelling goat herd: a hiker was gored to death at the park in 2010, for instance. popularmechanics.com/science/a23511011/olympic-national-park-goats-urine/
Open a fucking mountain goat season then. Set a limit of tags and keep doing it till the population is either small enough not to damage, or regains its fear of humans and leaves for safer areas.
Ryan Reyes
who brought these goats there in the first place? the jews.
Lincoln Cooper
This. What's so hard about this? It's like how you can't hunt the "invasive" green crabs and how the government has made it illegal to cook and cure wild hogs even though the only real parasites in hog meat are worms that are easily killed by fucking cooking the meat through at higher temperatures. The real issue is the environmental impact, but hunting even helps with that.
David Russell
My goats don't float.
Easton Robinson
So fucking retarded. I mean really, are you for fucking real? Are you deliberately trying to make gun owners look retarded? The sensible solution is to place salt sources in the park, away from the main human areas. Rocksalt is not expensive. The financial loss resulting from the very first goat hunting "accident", as well as the loss in tourism from people who don't want to be in the same vicinity as untrained civilians with firearms, completely outstrips any cost of providing and stocking rock salt dispensers at strategic points in the park.
Brandon Clark
Hunters are the most trained marksmen among the population. Don't you know fudds are the most trained individuals out there, user? That's why they're always trying to keep those evil black guns out of the hands of less-trained individuals. :^)
Dumbass this is how animal populations are managed literally EVERYWHERE else. I know that you really want to think that 'hunters' translates to '5 hillbillies in ill-fitting clothes, carrying more beer than ammunition, and who shop at *sob* walmart', but it's actually a lot close to 'guy who spends more time and money training with his weapon than anyone but Olympic level marksmen and members of the special forces'.
Your post shows us that you're not a Jew, you don't rate that high.
Hudson Hernandez
hahaha you're SO fucking full of shit @ your idiotic description of hunters !!
wow !!……..
you're a fucking IDIOT
Evan Martin
wWOWw
low self esteem compensation much?
Justin Evans
I know, right? I mean, God, it's 2018! I'm literally fucking shaking right now at the thought that a national park may have to close for a week or two just so some murderous fucking Trumptards can get their rocks off murdering poor, innocent billy goats gruff. ;.;
Mason Watson
The goat meat might taste a little "pissey".
Dylan Rivera
ok stepson
Tyler Evans
my mom said donold trump is evil
Eli Watson
sure thing, sexless dude
Andrew Martinez
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Alexander Miller
>t. guy who spends more time and money shitposting on anonymous image boards than anyone but Olympic level autists and robots WEW
can confirm. not a hunter. in usmc boot camp they told us "if you never shot before then youll be better because you dont have bad habits" i barely scored sharpshooter. all the hunters in my platoon scored expert. experience>proper training even that finnish ww2 sniper said so
Brayden Baker
Fuck off
Jose Smith
new material please
Jack Cruz
sure thing, sexless dude
Charles Gutierrez
Perhaps I should go up there and put a saltlick out so I don't have to see retard comments from the dumb-dumbs.
Juan Phillips
sissies need weapons of course because you ain't shit a baby raccoon would rip your face off
