50 mountain goats flown out of Olympics in final relocation effort

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4. They're not indigenous to the Olympics

They were moved there in 1925 before there was a park because someone living in the area thought they'd make a great game animal.

Mountain goats threaten visitor safety and damage the unique vegetation of the Olympic Mountains. Because many of the areas inhabited by mountain goats are popular destinations for park and national forest visitors, there is high potential for mountain goat-human interactions. Mountain goats can be a nuisance along trails and around wilderness campsites where they persistently seek salt and minerals from human urine, packs, and sweat on clothing. They often paw and dig areas on the ground where hikers have urinated or disposed of cooking wastewater. The nature of mountain goat-human interactions can vary widely, from humans observing mountain goats from several hundred meters away across a ridge, mountain goats approaching visitors, hazing events and hazardous interactions such as the October 2010 fatality of a park visitor on a popular hiking trail.

https://www.nps.gov/olym/planyourvisit/mountain-goat-capture-and-translocation.htm