Almost all of the 300 mountain goats moved from Olympics to the Cascades have died
![caption: A mountain goats stands on a cliff edge near Lake Ingalls, southwest of Leavenworth, Washington, in the North Cascades.](https://kuow-prod.imgix.net/store/145cea6042e9fed7ef1d361c6edb6d49.jpg?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&fit=clip&crop=faces&auto=format&w=924&h=634)
A mountain goats stands on a cliff edge near Lake Ingalls, southwest of Leavenworth, Washington, in the North Cascades.
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Starting in 2018, state and federal officials began moving more than 300 mountain goats from the Olympic Peninsula to the North Cascades.
It was a joint project with local tribes, the Olympic National Park, Washington Fish and Wildlife, and the U.S. Forest Service.
Now, more than five years later, reporting from the Everett Herald indicates the project has had mixed success. Hundreds of goats were successfully moved from the park, but it appears that almost all of them have since died.
It's part of a larger trend of mountain goat declines across the state.
![caption: Freshly captured, non-native mountain goats arrived at a staging area in Olympic National Park in 2018 before their relocation to the northern Cascade Range.](https://kuow-prod.imgix.net/store/5a43715095a7b1295c4aa15ada2c1fa7.gif?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&fit=clip&crop=faces&auto=format&w=924&h=634)
Freshly captured, non-native mountain goats arrived at a staging area in Olympic National Park in 2018 before their relocation to the northern Cascade Range.
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