California Dispatches Goats to Prevent Wildfires

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California firefighters are enlisting help from some unusual allies to prevent more deadly wildfires from ripping across the state -- goats.

The Ventura County Fire Department is releasing hundreds of goats next week north of Los Angeles to eat dead brush that could become fuel for a fires.

“They’ll eat until we like the way the landscape looks, and then we move them to another area,” Captain Ken VanWig, who oversees the department’s vegetation management program, said in an interview. “They’re very effective.”

[Post edited by EDGEMAN at 05/04/2019 08:17AM]

Posted: 05/04/2019 at 08:16AM

California Dispatches Goats to Prevent Wildfires -- EDGEMAN 05/04/2019 08:16AM

Soon they will make $15 an hour ** -- WestyHokie 05/04/2019 2:44PM

There is a guy over here in the east bay that does this -- MrBayAreaHokie 05/04/2019 2:05PM

I’m sure PETA has already complained about the exploitation of the goats. -- Spud 05/04/2019 1:15PM

City of Tally used em for kudzu. ** -- aint2Hokie4me 05/04/2019 12:52PM

Works for poison ivy too -- `lag 05/04/2019 11:44AM

Do they crap out the seeds on the next guys property? -- Hokie360 05/04/2019 3:47PM

Lol I don’t know -- `lag 05/04/2019 4:06PM

Wish I had a herd to wander my neighborhood, poison ivy is everywhere -- kjhokie 05/04/2019 12:47PM

Next up: The GOAT Goat, GOTY, Bovidae HOF -- PhotoHokieNC 05/04/2019 09:44AM

Maaaa ** -- AZHokie59 05/04/2019 10:35AM

...you have got to be kidding ** -- chumley 05/04/2019 11:58AM

To all the brave firefighting goats out there -- Cal Naughton Jr 05/04/2019 09:29AM

I thought that was union work. ** -- RoswellGAHokie 05/04/2019 08:37AM

Union Goats Local #107 ** -- EDGEMAN 05/04/2019 10:48AM

About time. -- TabbHokie 05/04/2019 08:28AM

Not sure goats eat too much dead stuff especially limbs and fallen trees -- Nelsonia Hokie 05/04/2019 12:46PM

"These newcomers to the game are pulling the wool over your eyes" -- Coach McGuirk 05/04/2019 11:42AM

California Dispatches Goats to Prevent Wildfires

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