About 90% of goats in herds near Darrington, Snohomish County, have vanished. Wildlife officials moved hundreds of goats to the area, from the Olympic Mountains, but only a few are ...

Coast Salish tribes, at the forefront of the North Cascades mountain goat monitoring efforts, have deep cultural ties to the animals. New federal funding will help the Stillaguamish Tribe, in a ...

That year, 65 goats were counted by agency and volunteer teams in the Mount St. Helens/Mount Margaret area. In 2015, that number rose to 152. Continued growth in numbers is good news, not just for ...

Throughout the history of the Coast Salish tribes, wool was a scarce commodity gathered once a year from shedding wild mountain goats, then processed and woven by the tribes’ master textile weavers.

A falling population of mountain goats in the Mission Mountains has prompted the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes to cancel goat hunting on the reservation. “We’ve been trying to get ...

Coast Salish oral tradition refers to a special dog which was bred locally until the mid 19 th century for its woolly hair or fleece for ... indicating a strong preference for mountain goat hair, ...

Among Coast Salish nations, stories of woolly dogs have been handed down since their extinction in the 19th century. Inspired by those stories, ... like mountain goat fleece.

The Coast Salish peoples often combined the dogs’ woolly undercoat with mountain goat hair and plant fiber to form a thick yarn that weavers then used to craft patterned blankets.