The Goats in the Olympics were introduced from the Canadian Rockies and Alaska that is what we were talking about right?
www.nps.gov/history/history/online_books...ence/25/contents.htm
It's not like they walked there from NCNP.
But the NPS view that mountain goats were never indigenous to the Olympic Peninsula [but not the fact that goats were transplanted there] has been hotly contested by outside scientists and conservationists ...
I have become increasingly skeptical of the research produced by ONP scientists. It is for example, easy to demonstrate that ONP management specialist Paul Crawford's (1993:15) statement that a thorough search of historical and archeological records has been conducted to answer any lingering doubts about the exotic status of the goats" is false /quote]
Northwest Science
Note the quote from Fannin and Grinnell (l890:62)"mountain goats "are ... abundant on the OlympianRange ..." and that Grinnell was an eminent geologist and naturalist.
It is not inconceivable at all the mountain goats may have immigrated to the Olympic Peninsula from the Tatoosh Range. Goat remains have even been found on Vancouver Island, although it is not clear if they had existed in glacial refugia or immigrated there as glaciers receded.
