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posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday May 08 2019, @12:56PM   Printer-friendly
from the do-they-get-to-run-the-siren? dept.

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

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 PartTimeZombie on Wednesday May 08 2019, @10:19PM (1 child)

    by PartTimeZombie (4827) on Wednesday May 08 2019, @10:19PM (#841052)

    New Zealand's rabbit problem is also due to lack of predators. We do have native hawks, which will eat rabbits, and cats and dogs also, but they stand no chance at all of keeping rabbit populations down, as the little buggers breed like rabbits.

    They will also pull up and eat grass roots once they've eaten everything else. Then the topsoil blows into the sea.

    Introducing mammals into a land that never evolved any was a mistake.

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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by zdammit on Thursday May 09 2019, @12:24AM

    by zdammit (5626) on Thursday May 09 2019, @12:24AM (#841100)

    The stoats fixed that though. </sarcasm>