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Article: On the horns of a dilemma. (managing mountain goats in Olympic National Park in Washington State)
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- May 1, 1994
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Olympic National Park managers must make some hard choices about mountain goats, a popular but destructive non-native species.
The Olympic Peninsula stretches all the way from Puget Sound to the Pacific Ocean, leading you as far northwest as you can go and still have your feet on the continental United States. Surrounded on three sides by salt water, this separated portion of Washington state encloses some of North America's most spectacular flora and fauna.
Which is why the interior was set aside in 1938, and a narrow strip along the ocean added in 1953, as Olympic National Park - close to a million acres of wilderness from sea level to nearly 8,000 feet ...