OREGON, USA — Washington and Oregon are popular places for vacationing and rafting. River enthusiasts planning trips along the Grande Ronde should pack extra caution along with their camping gear this ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Territorial goats of the Pacific Northwest are asking adventure-seekers to get off their lawn. The Bureau of Land Management has alerted the public that “aggressive mountain ...

SALT LAKE CITY — On a recent hike to the top of Mount Timpanogos, our group of four encountered mountain goats and their young several times along the trail. We were careful not to get too close or ...

The scene ends badly, as you might imagine. By Lesley Evans Ogden Mountain goats are high-elevation daredevils, learning to balance upon the steepest of rocky edifices soon after they are born.

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 ...

The usually "very mellow" mountain goats on a Utah peak popular with hikers and campers have killed three dogs in as many weeks, local officials said. The fatal encounters involving dogs and mountain ...

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Turkey Mountain is looking more like “Goat” Mountain these days. The park has introduced goats to munch on all the invasive ...

CLEAR CREEK COUNTY, Colo. — When the COVID-19 pandemic shut down car traffic to Mount Blue Sky in 2020, the Denver Zoo Conservation Alliance got a rare glimpse at how wildlife interacted with their ...

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with The Mountain Goats frontman John Darnielle about their new album, "Through This Fire Across From Peter Balkan." ...