In 2024, travelers from 18 states — as far north as Edmonton, as far east as Florida, and as far south as Hawaii — visited a ...

Losing summer snow patches may hit mountain goats hard, according to a study that suggests that goats seek out snow to avoid biting insects. Many cold-adapted species take advantage of patches of ...

That’s just sort of the cost of doing business in these extreme mountain environments,” said Kevin White, a wildlife ecologist who spent 17 years collecting data on alpine ...

Losing summer snow patches may be hard on mountain goats, according to a new study. For their paper, researchers looked at animals in Glacier National Park, which has lost 85 per cent of its glaciers ...

Mountain goats, which range in Alaska from Southeast ... Avalanches also sometimes sweep snow and rock away, leaving behind fertile ground from which springs savory green vegetation.

Four adult female mountain goats climbing through snow and ice covered cliffs in mid-winter, Takshanuk Ridge, Haines, Alaska (Photo courtesy of Kevin White) Scientists know a lot about goats ...

“We’ve often thought of snow as a major driver of populations,” of mountain goats. But the difficulty of studying their rugged, inaccessible habitats has limited understanding of what ...

Researchers knew the relocated mountain goats would have a tough first winter ... For three summers, helicopters cruised over the snow-capped peaks of Olympic National Park. Workers shot the ...

Summer snow offers a lot of benefits to mountain goats. Losing summer snow patches may be hard on mountain goats, according to a new study. For their paper, researchers looked at animals in ...