WA Restrictiona

[Montana Mike]

Thanks to both of you for the quick response and the good help. I guess where there's a lot of people, there's a lot of rules. Pack goats aren't often encountered in Montana either, but the FS here is more curious than restrictive. I was once winding my way up a FS road, hauling my pack goat in a little trailer when I noticed a FS truck behind me. I pulled over to let him by, and he stopped beside me and rolled down his window. He said with a smile, "I just gotta ask. What's with the goat?" I explained about goat packing, and he was amazed. On that same trip, I was stopped by a flagger who was directing traffic around some highway road construction. The flagger walked up to my window and asked, "Taking your goat for a ride?"

My feeling is, if they don't allow pack goats, they ought to disallow deer as well. There both about equally easy on the environment.