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In the early days, the Rocky Mountain Goat ranged the Cascades and Coast Range of Oregon and were sighted by explorers including Lewis and Clark who noted the goat "is found in many places, but mostly in timbered parts of the Rocky Mountains...we have, nevertheless, too many proofs to admit a doubt of their existence in considerable numbers near the coast." In a journal entry November 29, 1811, Alexander Henry told of a canoe arriving from the Willamette Valley with "seven shamoys" (chamois) weighing between 50-80 pounds each." The Rocky Mountain Goat is extinct in Oregon.
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