Hundreds of hungry goats will arrive on campus later this week to graze on about 30 acres of vegetation that would otherwise dry into potential wildfire fuel as summer arrives. The goat herd, on ...

Prescribed or targeted grazing has been used on Western rangelands for many years to manage range weeds and is also used to reduce fuel and maintain fire breaks in high fire hazard areas. It has also ...

Goats are used for what's called targeted grazing where they graze in a fenced area to promote renewable agriculture. It's called targeted grazing. Companies rent out goats to clear away poison ivy or ...

Increasingly in recent years, Californians have put goats’ voracious and almost indiscriminate diets to work, minimizing fuel for wildfires across the state — a method that has been heralded as ...

WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Hundreds of goats munch on long blades of yellow grass on a hillside next to a sprawling townhouse complex. They were hired to clear vegetation that could fuel wildfires ...

Hundreds of goats munch on long blades of yellow grass on a hillside next to a sprawling townhouse complex. They were hired to clear vegetation that could fuel wildfires as temperatures rise this ...

They’re affectionally known as the fire-eating goats: Star Grazer, Chewbacca, Galileo and Death — Destroyer of the Weeds. The goats don’t actually eat the flames. They feed on its fuel. Soon the ...

WEST SACRAMENTO – With fire season fast approaching, communities are getting creative about how they prepare before a fire ever sparks. If things are a little noisy in your neck of the woods, it might ...

RUSHFORD — Atop Magelssen bluff, above the city of Rushford, co-owner of Driftless Land Stewardship LLC Jesse Bennett, stood facing the brush. Goat, goat, goat, he called. Tucked away in the brush ...

There aren’t many businesses that draw a crowd, but when a park on Green Bay’s southwest side is filled with the sound of bleating goats, that is exactly what happens. Recently, cars lined the road ...

A major grazing effort is underway to protect Santa Barbara County residents in the event of a brush fire. The Santa Barbara County Fire Safe Council is using goats and lambs from Cuyama Lamb and ...