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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: 2) by JoeMerchant on Wednesday May 08 2019, @09:10PM
We visited a state park that had a few goats in a pen. To entice the goats to the fence for the kids, I broke off a branch of something or other and dangled it over the fence - it worked, of course, 3 seconds later all the goats were at the fence munching on the branch.
A few seconds later we walked around a corner in the fence and, I noticed a "do not feed the goats" sign, printed on 8.5x11 paper and stapled to the fence in a plastic sleeve. The goats followed us around the corner, reached up over the fence and proceeded to eat the sign, plastic cover and all.
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