[APWG] NEWS: Goats put their graze anatomy to good work

Olivia Kwong plant at plantconservation.org
Mon Mar 7 08:43:01 CST 2011


http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-goat-grazers-20110306,0,7369897.story

Goats put their graze anatomy to good work
A couple hundred of the inveterate munchers are eating their way through 
invasive weeds in a burned portion of the Palos Verdes Nature Preserve, 
clearing the way for native plants and insects to move back in.
By Nicole Santa Cruz, Los Angeles Times
March 5, 2011, 9:05 p.m.

The sound of hundreds of goat hooves echoed through a small valley 
overlooking the ocean Saturday in the Palos Verdes Nature Preserve, 
surprising passerby who watched as the animals munched their way through 
yard after yard of invasive weeds.

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