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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."
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(Score: 3, Funny) by RamiK on Wednesday May 08 2019, @07:42PM
A Californian pastoral
by RamiK
Come live with me and share your rack,
And we will all the woodlands hack,
That Valleys, groves, hills, and fields,
Woods, or steepy mountain yields.
And we will sit upon the Rocks,
Seeing goats feast on shrubs,
By dried Rivers to whose crawls
cutoff ringtones of disconnected calls
And I will make thee beds of lilies
And a thousand dried up tulips,
A cap of potpourri, a blacksmith's apron
To tame the flames, To smother olfaction;
Vestments made of resistant wool
Which from our pretty lambs we pull;
Knee-high boots for the coals,
that we will slide off the poles;
A belt of leather and metal hooks,
holstering Pulaski, covered in soot;
And if these pleasures may thee move,
send me a selfie of your smexy nude.
The shepherds' swains shall dance and sing
For thy delight each May morning:
If these delights thy mind may move,
Then live with me and be my love.
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