DEL MAR — Goat packing, for those few who don’t know, is theart and science of using goats as pack animals to carry supplies.To celebrate the packing goat and its owners, the San Diego CountyFair has ...

Pack horses are tried and true, and mules are proven hunting-gear haulers. Hunting elk with a trio of domestic goats, though, is an acquired taste. John and Nancy Clough of Dalton Gardens have joined ...

Pack horses are tried and true, and mules are proven hunting-gear haulers. Hunting elk with a trio of domestic goats, though, is an acquired taste. John and Nancy Clough of Dalton Gardens, Idaho, have ...

Efforts are underway to restrict pack goats in some public lands because of concerns for transferring disease that can kill bighorn sheep. “While that’s been connected to domestic sheep, recent ...

Travel through the desert with the inventor of goat packing, John Mionczynski. Natural historian and eccentric scientist John Mionczynski guides host David Yetman on a journey through the “heart” of ...

On a beautiful morning in early June, I swallowed a hard truth. My family had hit a wall when it came to outdoor adventure. It happened like this. I asked my kids — 7-year-old Jake and 3-year-old ...

My Wyoming goat-packing trip sounded great -- except for the goat part. Horse-packing, donkey-packing, even llama-packing -- no problem. But who'd want to spend time with billy goats? I've been around ...

THE AVERAGE MAINLANDER thinks of Hawaii only as a tropical paradise where hula dancers sway, trade winds blow, and luxurious hotels beckon. Few realize that there’s excellent big-game hunting here, ...

“Pack goats make my life easy,” said Howie Halcomb, a hunter who pursues game with the rigor of a backcountry athlete. The 38-year-old sportsman said pack goats are ideal companions for hiking to ...