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 ...

This story, “My Goat Was High,” appeared in the August 1970 issue of Outdoor Life. RON MARTIN WAS NOT the silent type of guide. He lowered his 6X binoculars and gave me a dry grin. “There are your ...

MISSOULA, Mont. — A group of University of Montana researchers are in year two of a five-year study funded by Montana, Fish, Wildlife and Parks to track bighorn sheep and mountain goats. There is a ...

Wildlife biologist Kevin White shared the relationship between mountain goats and avalanches.

Dotted across the mountains of Southeast Alaska, white mountain goats move deftly through rugged snowscapes. Though climbing high into the mountains leaves predators below, an avalanche could pose a ...

Mountain goat populations in Glacier National Park have plummeted sharply in recent years, according to new research on the iconic species that lives in the park's mountainous terrain. "This is the ...

Like a ghost that drifts among clouds and cliffs, in defiance of gravity itself, abides this improbable beast of the peaks. From the loftiest vantage of any large mammal on the continent, it has ...

Call it the American mountain goat paradox: For an animal so rarely seen by the public, it appears very often in artwork and logos.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A mountain goat in Glacier National Park (Photo by Micah Drew | Daily Montanan). A long-running citizen science program in Glacier ...