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White goats, white lies : the misuse of science in Olympic National Park / R. Lee Lyman.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press, �1998.Description: 1 online resource (ix, 278 pages, 8 pages of plates) : illustrations, mapsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0585129746
  • 9780585129747
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: White goats, white lies.DDC classification:
  • 639.97/9648 21
LOC classification:
  • QL737.U53 L93 1998eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Wildlife management, science, and the national park service -- 3. Populations -- 4. Plants -- 5. Wallows, publishing, factoids, and emotions -- 6. History, ethnography, and archaeology -- Plates: following page -- 7. On the historical biogeography of the Olympic Peninsula -- 8. Management of white goats -- Appendix -- References -- Index.
Action note:
  • digitized 2010 committed to preserve
Summary: Although mountain goats are native to the Cascade range, they do not appear to have been present in Washington states's Olympic Mountains during historic times. Wildlife managers introduced goats in small numbers in what soon became Olympic National Park in 1925 and sporadically thereafter for the next twenty years. According to a 1981 statement by the National Park Service, the mountain goats in Olympic National Park "appear to be significantly altering the alpine ecosystem the park was designed to protect and preserve. As a result, park managers have argued that the goats must be eradicated." An eradication program has been in place for several years now. White Goats, White Lies does not argue for or against eradication of "exotics" in Olympic and other national parks. Rather it examines the science used to justify the current park position and questions the extent to which science is an afterthought in national park decisions.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-273) and index.

Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Wildlife management, science, and the national park service -- 3. Populations -- 4. Plants -- 5. Wallows, publishing, factoids, and emotions -- 6. History, ethnography, and archaeology -- Plates: following page -- 7. On the historical biogeography of the Olympic Peninsula -- 8. Management of white goats -- Appendix -- References -- Index.

Although mountain goats are native to the Cascade range, they do not appear to have been present in Washington states's Olympic Mountains during historic times. Wildlife managers introduced goats in small numbers in what soon became Olympic National Park in 1925 and sporadically thereafter for the next twenty years. According to a 1981 statement by the National Park Service, the mountain goats in Olympic National Park "appear to be significantly altering the alpine ecosystem the park was designed to protect and preserve. As a result, park managers have argued that the goats must be eradicated." An eradication program has been in place for several years now. White Goats, White Lies does not argue for or against eradication of "exotics" in Olympic and other national parks. Rather it examines the science used to justify the current park position and questions the extent to which science is an afterthought in national park decisions.

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