Thread: Feds clearing underbrush CA courthouse create jobs for Goats

Feds clearing underbrush by CA courthouse create jobs -- for goats...

GSA Deploys Goat Herd to Save Energy, Money
The extreme overgrowth and underbrush on the hillside behind the Richard H. Chambers U.S. Courthouse in Pasadena, California, prompted GSA’s Pacific Rim Region property management to take quick action to avoid summer fires.

Ultimately, the choice was easy: Use a herd of goats. The decision meant a cost-saving to taxpayers over hiring manual labor and proved to be better for the environment than bulldozers.

The unusually wet winter and spring caused the overgrowth, which, in California, always means the risk of summer wildfires and grass fires because of tinder underbrush.

The goats are an efficient vegetation management tool, costing thousands less and taking three days vs. a week for manual labor, with few side effects. Unlike bulldozers, used historically for the annual project, goats control brush and weeds without disturbing the grass and soil. They also do not pollute or leave synthetic chemicals that could run off into lakes and streams or be ingested by other animals.

Before deploying the animals to the courthouse, GSA reached out to neighbors to let them know about the herd of four-legged critters.

“They were tickled and impressed with the idea,â€

I wonder if they can be trained to subsist on politicians and lawyers, or would that be considered misteatment of the goats, turn them loose in congress and lets see.

As long as the goats have their papers then I have no problems. It beats the alternative, which would have been our government hiring a bunch of illegal invaders to clear the hillside....

When I lived in colorado, they hired these goats to eat the "noxious" weeds in the towns around Lake Dillon!
It is a really good business and the lady that owned the operation was making mid six figure money. She had an 18 wheeler with several levels, she only need a couple of shepards and dogs. She didn't have to buy feed, she had a wool crop and sold the babies.
The goats are a specific breed and they eat ravenously all of the time. They completely digest all of the weed seeds. It took about 3 days for them to clear about a 3 acre area by the lake.

I wonder if they can be trained to subsist on politicians and lawyers, or would that be considered misteatment of the goats, turn them loose in congress and lets see

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