There’s No Machine Like a Goat
Opportunity to Improve Systematic Grazing Skills
Strengthen your understanding of planned, targeted goat grazing while gaining tools to meet today’s land-management challenges. This opportunity helps you refine the full spectrum of skills needed for systematic grazing: reading landscapes, coordinating transport and job-site loading/unloading, monitoring vegetation, protecting soil and water, and reducing wildfire fuels.
Opportunity to Improve Rangelands
Whether you’re a new grazier or an experienced land steward, improving these skills equips you to restore ecosystems, regenerate soils, and mitigate climate impacts through thoughtful, evidence-based grazing practices.
“Goats will eat plants, livestock, and wildlife won’t—such as noxious weeds—and return the nutrients to the soil. Combined with reseeding, targeted grazing improves wildlife habitat by increasing native plant abundance and diversity.” — Kristy Wallner, BLM Range Management Specialist
Working with Nature
Working with nature is an often-overlooked but crucial step in reducing the worst impacts of climate change. Systematic goat grazing is a proven, nature-based tool for wildfire mitigation and land restoration.
At the Goatapelli Foundation, our mission is to train and support goat graziers who manage weeds and wildfire fuels in the era of climate change. By guiding goats strategically, we help rehabilitate soils, protect watersheds, and build healthier ecosystems.
Why Systematic Goat Grazing Works
Fire Mitigation: Goats clear the understory plants that form the fire-fuel ladder, reducing tinder and preventing wildfires.
Soil Regeneration: As they graze, goats recycle vegetation through digestion and trampling, enriching the soil and boosting organic matter.
Invasive Species Control: Grazing applies selective pressure on unwanted plants, allowing desirable species to thrive.
Carbon Capture: Healthy soil built through grazing stores carbon, curbing greenhouse gases and restoring degraded lands.
For years, we’ve worked with goats to turn polluted, overgrown, or fire-prone lands into living, functioning ecosystems. Now, we’re training others to do the same—because climate change is accelerating, and we’re out of time to waste.
Address Land and Fire Challenges
Do you face wildfire risk, invasive plants, depleted soils, or erosion—and want safe, chemical-free solutions?
Goat grazing is a cost-effective, eco-friendly method to heal watersheds, reduce wildfire danger, and regenerate land.
Your Support Matters
There are many ways to help advance this work through the Goatapelli Foundation. Whether you give online, create a legacy gift, volunteer, or contribute in another way, you’ll be part of something extraordinary—work that restores land, strengthens communities, and protects future generations.
Our team is ready to help you find the giving path that best matches your goals and values.