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MEirion, ; The Salt lake Trihiner SALT LAKE CITY (AP) There ' are pack horses, pack mules and pack llamas. But how about pack goats? Goats are perhaps the newest trend in hiking and backpack-carrying animals, and Utah is leading the pack in their" promotion. In fact, the 2004 Rendezvous for the North American Packgoat Association will be held this week end at Sheep Creek Lake, near Flaming Gorge. Clay Zimmerman of Tooele is one of the rendezvous organizers, and he also operates High Uinta Pack Goats, renting goats for public use. He started using pack goats about 1 0 years ago and believes their usage has quadrupled in Utah in that time. There are at least a dozen active goat packers in Utah, from Logan to St. George. "Goats are about the friendliest animal you can get," Zimmerman said. "Some goats will even rest their head on your lap. They like people." He said you can forgot all those stereotypes about goats being stubborn, stub-born, stinky and unmanageable. Goats are as friendly as dogs, if trained right, and he believes they make great hiking companions. "Each goat has his own name and personality,'' he said of his personal herd of a dozen animals. He said goats are mellower than llamas and do not hurt the environment.- "Goats don 1 destroy wilderness," wilder-ness," Zimmerman said. "They are environmentally friendly." Goats browse when they feed, like deer. "You dont carry food for them," he said. "They get a bite here and a nibble there." Zimmerman said they are also loyal animals, though they may follow fol-low other backpacking groups you encounter, if you're not careful. Two main disadvantages to goats are that they travel less in a day than other pack animals and they cant carry as much weight. Goats can safely carry about one-fourth one-fourth of their body weight, and that usually equals 40-60 pounds of gear. From about 5 years of age on, goats can carry the heavy loads. Goats live 12-15 years and weigh 180-250 pounds. For small children or the senior citizen who loves to hike, fish or hunt but can no longer easily back pack, goats are an option to lessen human burdens. Ask anyone what the biggest downside to backpacking is and most will probably single out heavy packs. Zimmerman said his wife has bad knees, but thanks to goats, she has been on 100-mile backpacking trips. And Zimmerman said they can go just about anywhere a human can go, outside of a cliff. His goats have been atop Utah highest summit. Kings Peak, 13,528 feet above sea level. With loose rock and some scrambling required, the goats had no trouble getting there. They can go places many other pack animals cant Zimmerman has taken his goats up to a 14,000-foot elevation in the Wind River Range of Wyoming, so altitude doesnt affect them much, either. They can also traverse snowy terrain. "No horse or llama has that kind of footing," he said. How about transportation? Goats easily can be hauled in a small trailer or a pickup truck. Zimmerman said some people have even used boxes containing kitty litter lit-ter in their vans to haul several goats to trailheads. They also dont need to be tied up at night in a camp if they are properly bonded to their human -group. Some forest areas require goats be on leashes. Otherwise, Zimmerman said he has his goats' 'leashes tucked in, to be used as needed. "Usually, they will never leave your side," he said, lamenting some of the privacy you may feel like you give away by having these underrated underrat-ed animals along. He stressed they cost much less than other pack animals to own and maintain. He charges about $20 a day to rent his goats, with a two-goat two-goat minimum. Families and Scout groups have used his goats. Rendezvous events include a service project with the U.S. Forest Service to improve a trail and training train-ing classes on hoof trimming, saddling sad-dling and loading. Zimmerman expects 75 to 100 people to attend the event, the first time it has been held in Utah during the organization's six-year existence. exis-tence. Those attending will come from all over the nation, though the western states are the group's mainstay. New group seeks to safeguard historic sites GREEN RIVER, Wyo. (AP) A new organization hopes to help protect pro-tect Wyoming's historic and prehistoric prehis-toric sites. The Alliance for Historic Wyoming is particularly interested in sites that fall under the National Historic Preservation act. the National Environmental Policy Act and state historic site management. "We feel that it would be nice if people knew what was going on and knew what our cultural and historic resources are ... and how to go about preserving them," said co-founder Barbara Dobos, of Casper. Dobos said increased mining and drilling, diminished access to public land and changes in land ownership patterns all contribute to the threats faced by Wyoming's historic and cultural cul-tural sites. "We dont want to compete with any of the environmental groups or any other groups ... but we do see a unique niche here that we want to fill," she said." One of the group's methods will be to provide information on its Web site. The goal is to create a core of advocates who are prepared' to take action in public lands debates. "We've had a terrific reception," said Dobos, a retired teacher and former state legislator. Dobos has been an outspoken critic of the proposed sale and subsequent sub-sequent lease of historic Martin's Cove to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Hundreds of Mormon handcart pioneers perished per-ished in a blizzard at the site in the 19th century. Co-founder Lesley Wischmann, a writer, historian and public speaker from Laramie, said the group originated origi-nated from that dispute. "In the course of that effort, (we) became increasingly aware of the need for the public to make their voices heard in the fight to preserve Wyoming's history and traditional ' culture," Wischmann said. Dobos said the group has identified identi-fied and is monitoring several historic his-toric and cultural resource issues around Wyoming. They include historic his-toric areas near Fort Phil Kearney. The group plans to apply for nonprofit non-profit status. PARK CrrYSBEST lifT GAWKING SEciS!' 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