[conrad74]

What are your thoughts about the removal of the goats in general? "Carcasses would be left in the park (away from visitor areas and marmot habitat) or donated for eating." Leaving carcasses behind? What would be the purpose? Feed the cougars? The bears? Hungry hikers? https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/removal-of-olympic-national-park-mountain-goats-could-start-in-summer/

[andypandy]

Non-native species with a high mortality rate anyway. Overall I’m a fan.

[Windstorm]

Non-native, inbred, aggressive...not sorry they'll be gone from the Olympics. Leaving carcasses behind sounds startling at first, but I'd rather they return to nature than end up in a landfill.

[flatsqwerl]

I look forward to finding some cool goat bones...

[Yana]

[Ski]

My best recollection of a phone conversation with a former (retired) National Park Service Ranger some years back: "Mike, I just wanted to let you know that there's a dead cow elk laying in the middle of the Salmon River just downstream from the bridge." "So? What do you want me to do about it? Wild animals die in the woods all the time." I had to concede that he had a good point. There have been a number of times when I was walking along the trail and was overcome by the stench of a rotting elk carcass near the trail. One year it was a dead dog (or coyote) laying right next to the trail. (That one is mentioned in one of my trip reports - GoBlueHiker saw it the week prior and thought it was a bad omen.) Wild animals die. They die in the wild. It's all part of a natural process. For the record: Mike actually did go down a few days later with a length of rope and dragged that dead cow elk out of the river. Damn near killed himself doing it, but he managed to drag it up on the bank above the high water mark.

[Slugman]

I like that some or maybe most will be moved to areas that have non-inbred populations.

[puzzlr]

I have no problem with the dead animals being left, and will be glad when this non-native species is out of the Olympics. In summer the remains of a dead animal are disposed of quite quickly by the large, small, and microscopic residents of the forest. One of my weed sites had a very smelly dead deer carcass just off the road last year and I worried about having to smell it on subsequent visits. Within a month I coudn't find anything except a few scattered white bones.

[AlpineRose]

[Ringangleclaw]

Several decades ago a packers horse (or mule or burro) died up the Entiat. The plan was to dynamite it to bits. The result wasn’t like the Coos Bay whale, but rather a small hole in the ground and a bigger hole in the horse. But a big dead animal remained largely intact. But now-a-days I think the wolves would take care of the carrion.

[kbatku]

They should ship them all to the Enchantments - they need way more goats there.

[Randito]

I feel like what is being done about "goat issue" in ONP is a great example of over engineering a solution to a questionable problem. If one accepts the idea exterminating the goats from the peninsula is desirable environmentally -- why not simply allow "open season" on the goats for a few years before paying people to track them down, capture them and transport them else where.

[huron]

Everything is non-native including all of us and the entire geology of the Olypen.

[Ringangleclaw]

[cartman]