Rocky Mountain goats in the wild The white, fluffy, agile creatures are native to alpine and subalpine habitats of mostly the northwestern part of the U.S. They’re not native to Colorado, but wild ...

Mountain goats stick to steep alpine terrain for good reason: protection from less agile predators, like wolves and even brown bears. But new research indicates that a key feature of that same habitat ...

MISSOULA, Mont. — A group of University of Montana researchers are in year two of a five-year study funded by Montana, Fish, Wildlife and Parks to track bighorn sheep and mountain goats. There is a ...

Wildlife biology doctorate student Colton Padilla (left) assists other UM researchers and Montana Fish Wildlife & Parks staff during a winter bighorn sheep capture in 2023. (Photo courtesy of Colton ...

Tough and resilient though they are, mountain goats have blinked out in several of western Montana's historic strongholds, and state wildlife officials hope a trap-and-transplant project can restore a ...

Close up view of an adult male mountain goat in late-winter, near Juneau Icefield, Alaska. In the background, steep avalanche prone slopes are visible. (Photo courtesy of Kevin White) The mountain ...

Montana has perhaps the richest legacy of wild animals and strongest hunting heritage of any state in the union. But that is all the more reason not to take them for granted. Recently the ...

They were the noble symbol for the Great Northern Railway and the animal most associated with Glacier National Park. Lewis and Clark noted them in their journals, but for the most part, the first ...

BOZEMAN — Montana State University doctoral student Elizabeth Flesch has co-authored a paper that compares the mountain goat data that volunteers collected to data career scientists collected and ...

DARRINGTON — About five years ago, wildlife biologists with the Tulalip Tribes used GPS collars to start tracking 115 mountain goats translocated from the Olympic Peninsula to the North Cascades. Only ...