Willard Peak Mtn Goat

[MDnut]

I drew one of the non res Willard Peak Mtn Goat tags that starts next week. I received a phone call from a friend today, informing me that the DWR is going to trap & fly off 20 goats this week and only a few days before the hunt. I hope this is not true that they would do that this close to the hunt. That would run the bigger billy's to the un-huntable cliffs.

Has anyone else heard about this?

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[BillyBoB]

I haven't heard anything about that. I did take a trip up there a week ago and was suprised to see so many goats so close to the parking lot up top. Usually I've had to get my spotting scope out to see them in the past. This time they were only a couple hundred yards away. I didn't even need my binos.

Why don't you call thee DWR and ask about it?

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[MDnut]

I had already checked with the Salt Lake office and they asked for me to call back tomorrow and speak to a biologist that was not in today. I called the Ogden office and they said it was scheduled this week, but being so close to the hunt it has been rescheduled to mid October.

WHEW!!!

 

[Robiland]

If you go to SFW facebook page, It shows pics of that already happening. They started a few days ago from somewhere and have already tagged and collard a hand full of goats.

 

[tallbuck1]

Are the goats that are being taken off being transplanted to the LaSals?

Why take the goats off Willard peak? They should take the ones that have migrated out of the Willard peak hunting boundary and transplant those to other places.





Tallbuck1

 

[mtnrunner260]

I agree tallbuck but from what I can tell they don't even know goats have left the hunt boundary.

 

[awbmab]

http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/56835621-78/goats-mountain-south-utah.html.csp

 

[Deerlove]

There's not enough goats to capture outside the boundarys. Probably a easy catch on Willard.

 

[tallbuck1]

I counted 22 outside of the boundary last night. There are enough to start some herd! So then the question remains. Use them as the transplant base. But your right, they should do the easy thing.


>There's not enough goats to capture
>outside the boundarys. Probably a
>easy catch on Willard.





Tallbuck1

 

[Deerlove]

LAST EDITED ON Sep-13-13 AT 03:27PM (MST)[p]Yea we should set up snares up at snowbasin there's a dozen or so on strawberry and mt allen?

 

[Ticks N Tines]

>I counted 22 outside of the
>boundary last night. There
>are enough to start some
>herd! So then the question
>remains. Use them as
>the transplant base. But
>your right, they should do
>the easy thing.
>
>
>>There's not enough goats to capture
>>outside the boundarys. Probably a
>>easy catch on Willard.
>
>
>
>
>
>Tallbuck1

There's a ton of goats outside the boundary. Lewis peak, my Ogden peak, and all over weber canyon now. Hopefully they toss a couple tags out on a new unit that covers that area. I counted 19 in one little basin above Ogden a few months back.