BAKER CITY, Ore. (AP) — The mountain goat population has grown large enough in the Elkhart Mountains of eastern Oregon to allow moving some of the animals West to the Cascades.
The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife trapped 45 mountain goats last week in Baker County and then trucked them to the Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs reservation near Madras in central Oregon.
The goats were later released along Upper Whitewater River.
Mountain goats were eliminated from the Cascades south of the Columbia River Gorge more than 100 years ago.
State officials plan to transplant more goats into the Cascades, in the Three-Fingered Jack and Three Sisters regions, in the future.
