The National Park Service has released its final plan for goat management in Olympic National Park (“Park service releases final goat management plan for Olympic National Park,” PDN, May 7).
A better idea might be to move the park service employees who wish to move the goats.
After all, the goats were in the Olympics before the park was established or its employees were ever on the Peninsula (“Mountain Goats in Olympic National Park: Biology and Management of an Introduced Species,” NPS, 1994).
This is, again, the same old story: Some park employees seem to feel Olympic National Park belongs to them and not to the public that uses it.
I have met a number of folks who have visited ONP just to photograph the goats.
However, some park employees don’t seem to give a damn about the business ONP generates for the local economy.
Also, they don’t seem to really consider the cost of moving all the goats in the park to a new location where they might not survive.
Let’s encourage our friends and neighbors to write to their senators and congressmen.
Pressure the National Park Service to stop eliminating our mountain goats and start allowing them to return to their favorite haunts in ONP.
Eugene D. Rimov,
Port Angeles