Court upholds Utah’s efforts to relocate nonnative goats in the La Sal Mountains, but environmentalists worry about damage the animals do

Conservationists say introduced mountain goats in Utah's La Sal Mountains, pictured here in July 2017, are damaging Mount Peale's fragile alpine ecosystems. Utah wildlife officials are now developing proposals to establish goat herds in other Utah ranges where this big game species is not native. Photo by Marc Coles-Ritchie, Grand Canyon Trust