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1st International Mountain Goat Symposium – 1977

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Proceedings of the 1st International Mountain Goat Symposium
Kalispell, Montana


Table of Contents

Section I – Status

Distribution, Abundance and Management Status of Mountain Goats in North America Rolf
L. Johnson

Status and Management of the Rocky Mountain Goat, oreamnos americanus, in the Province of Alberta
W. K. Hall

Status and Management of the Mountain Goat in Alaska
Warren Ballard

Status of Mountain Goats in British Columbia
W. G. Macgregor

Status and Management of Mountain Goats in Colorado
Richard N. Denney

Status and Management of the Mountain Goat in Idaho
Lonn Kuck

Status and Management of the Mountain Goat in Washington
Rolf L. Johnson

Distribution, Abundance and Management of Mountain Goats in the Yukon
M. Hoefs, G. Lortie and D. Russell

Status of Introduced Mountain Goats in the Sawatch Range of Colorado
James A. Bailey and Bruce k. Johnston

The Impact of Exploration for Coal on Mountain Goats in Northeastern British Columbia
Bruce Pendergast and John Bindernagel

Mountain Goat Surveys in Yoho National Park, British Columbia
W. P. McCrory, D. A. Blood, D. Portman and D. Harwood

Section II – Behavior

The Influence of Mountain Goat Social Relationships on Population Size and Distribution
Douglas H. Chadwick

Mountain Goat Social Behavior: Social Structure and At Play Behavior As Affected by Dominance
Benjamin Dane

Dominance, Leadership and Group Cohesion of Mountain Goats at a Natural Lick, Glacier National Park, Montana
Francis J. Singer

Section III – Management

The Impacts of Hunting on Idaho’s Pahsimeroi Mountain Goat Herd
Lonn Kuck

A Description of Southern Interior and Coastal Mountain Goat Ecotypes in British Columbia
D. M. Hebert and W. G. Turnbull

Historical patterns of Mountain Goat Harvest in British Columbia
Bryan R. Foster

Research Needs for Mountain Goat Management
D. S. Eastman

Section IV – Habitat

Strategy of Resource Use by Mountain Goat Nursery Groups
Robert J. McFetridge

Influence of Snow conditions on Winter Distribution, Habitat Use, and Group Size of Mountain Goats
Bruce L. Smith

Summer Mountain Goat Activity and Habitat Preference in Coastal Alaska as a Basis for the Assessment of Survey Techniques
Joseph Larkin Fox

Interrelationships of Introduced Mountain Goats and Subalpine Habitat in Olympic National Park
Ingrid Olmsted

Section V – Research

Mountain Goat Home Ranges in the Sapphire Mountains of Montana
Chester B. Rideout

Parasites of Mountain Goat, Oreamnos americanus (Blainville), of West Central Alberta with a Comparison of the Helminths of Mountain Goat and Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep, Ovis c. canadensis Shaw.
W. M. Samuel and W. K. Hall

Bibliography of North America’s Mountain Goat (Oreamnos americanus)
Bryan R. Foster