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PANGUITCH, Garfield County — A bobcat and nearly 20 mountain goats were relocated to Mount Dutton in the Panguitch area last week, and the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources was sure to get it all on video.
The bobcat was released last Thursday, according to DWR spokeswoman Amy Canning, after it was found in Orem "getting into someone's chickens."
Video of the release from the DWR shows the bobcat skittering away in the snow on Mount Dutton.
The bobcat may be getting new neighbors, as the DWR also relocated several mountain goats from their previous location on Willard Peak in Weber County, where the mountain goat population needed reduction. According to Canning, the DWR believes the relocation will help bolster the mountain goat population on Mount Dutton.
In the video, four goats are reluctant to leave their holding pens and scamper off into the wild. With pink tags in their ears, the goats eventually leave, one by one, to explore their new environs.
Last week, we relocated these Willard Peak mountain goats to help boost the Mt. Dutton population. #Utah#wildlifepic.twitter.com/s5dUJzlZ76 — Utah DWR (@UtahDWR) November 1, 2015
Video of the capture of one mountain goat was also released, the process of which included a [net gun and a helicopter](http://www.ksl.com/?sid=28473305).
Mountain goats were likely native to Utah in the past but were reintroduced to the local ecosystem en masse in the late 1960s, many of them at the mouth of Little Cottonwood Canyon. Due to the DWR's many relocation efforts, mountain goats can be found on ranges across the state.