News

December 10, 2024

We are announcing two $50,000 research grants - Smithers Fund A and Smithers Fund B. The grants will be available for mountain goat research projects within British Columbia. The project must be non-statistical and must address a significant threat to mountain goats. Applications can be sent to mtgoats@bcnorth.ca

December 10, 2024

We have developed a new method for aerial population surveys for mountain goats. We add a high-resolution camera and sound recording to the process. Learn more here.

January 30, 2023

We now have 48 videos on our YouTube channel at oreamnos2012 - YouTube including raw video footage from our monitoring project at McKendrick Mountain in a series of video reports.

April 20, 2020

We have added an independent third-party certification service for heli-ski companies that agree to record helicopter flights and follow detailed flight plans to avoid disturbing mountain goats in their heli-ski tenures. Heli-ski operations can have a deadly effect on the health and sustainability of mountain goats. Mountain goats do not like helicopters flying close and do not habituate to repeated flights overhead. At the same time, the public and clients are concerned about the effects of their skiing recreation on wildlife. Our certification is assurance that approved heli-ski operations are responsible and following best practices in the industry. Learn more.

March 23, 2020

We have added four new videos that you can see at http://mtgoats.ca/gallery.asp The latest videos are at the top of the list.

July 7, 2019

We have added a collection of scientific papers that are especially relevant to mountain goats. The papers can be seen on the Links page.

January 12, 2019

We have added two new videos at http://mtgoats.ca/gallery.asp. One video is all about mountain goats that live in low-elevation creek canyons. The second video talks about mineral licks and how vital they are to goats.

April 2, 2018

The final report on our Mountain Goat Dispersal Survey has been posted on the Publications page.

December 8, 2017

We added an online form to calculate the number and effect of obstacles to dispersal by mountain goats from one mountain to another mountain that you specify. Visit our Dispersal page to learn more.

November 26, 2017

Two new web sites are launched. www.bcmountaingoatsociety.ca for our society and www.mtgoats.ca for our video and photo productions.

November 21, 2017

We published three new videos on our Mountain Goat web site at http://mtgoats.ca/gallery.asp. One video covers hiking in mountain goat country, another talks about summer habitat for goats and the third video is a collection of outtakes.