The Washington Post | Cathy Free. Lani Malmberg rounds up her goats on June 19 near Eaton, Colo., for a trip to another job site. They have an appetite for the kind of vegetation that makes up the fire ladder,’ said Lani Malmberg, who manages goat herds and teaches...
National Geographic | Chris Iovenko. Goats have a well-deserved reputation as one of the planet’s most voracious and rugged herbivores. Perhaps it’s unsurprising that goats are increasingly being recruited to help reduce the fuel load in the wildfire-stricken American...
Colorado Media | Chancy J. Gatlin. Spring Valley Ranch community brings in 1,200 goats to clear brush The northern Elizabeth area has adopted a natural approach to fire mitigation this year. Instead of plowing down the tall grasses to reduce the risk of brush fires,...
Pacific Research Institute | Kerry Jackson The New York Times calls them an “unconventional weapon against future wildfires.” Some are known as “Fire Grazers.” To most of us, though, they’re just goats. But they provide a valuable service: eating the “type of...
Sholeh Patrick | News Network Not far from us is a home on a couple of acres. They must rent out goats because over the years, we’ve seen anywhere from zero to a couple of dozen munching on their grass. I wondered if large property owners might find these hooved...
New York Times | Coral Murphy Marcos Unconventional Weapon Against Future Wildfires: Goats In Silverthorne, Colo., as her herd of goats grazes along a bucolic hillside, Lani Malmberg wonders how much more the land can take. In 2020, Colorado experienced the largest...
Sawyer D'Argonne | Daily Summit Wildfire risk mitigation is a frequent topic of conversation in Summit County. County and U.S. Forest Service officials are constantly looking to the next hazardous fuels reduction project in hopes of creating effective firebreaks along...
Medium.com Goats munch on flammable vegetation and create buffer zones In 2019, goats saved the Ronald Regan Presidential Library in California from being burned down in the season’s wildfire. A few months before, goats had devoured the flammable undergrowth around...
The Denver Post | John Meyer Goats: Four-legged weed-whackers devour noxious plants while improving the condition of the soil Goat herder Alexi Wattis watches over some 200 goats and their kids at Standley Lake Regional Park and Wildlife Refuge in Westminster,...
June 9, 2021 CNBC’s The News with Shepard Smith discusses fighting wildfires with goats as severe droughts and wildfires rise in the Western United States. Brewer speaks with ranch owners who work with the animals to talk about how the goats consume vegetation and how...
April 30, 2021 | Celia Hoffman TomKat Ranch Hires Goats for Fire Mitigation On April 6, about 850 goats arrived and immediately started grazing up the brush-filled hill behind the main barn and around the ranch buildings to create a fire break. Lani Malmberg explains...
April 30, 2021 | Kelli Bender | TomKat Ranch Fire Fighting Goats Deployed at TomKat Ranch TomKat Ranch has teamed up with Goatapelli and their herd of 26th generation “browsers” (animals that prefer brush, weeds, and woody matter to grass) to remove dry, parched...
April 16, 2021 | Kelli Bender | TomKat Ranch Fire Fighting Goats Deployed at TomKat Ranch This April 2021, TomKat partnered with Lani Malmberg, founder and owner of Goatapelli, a goat grazing service, to work on fire mitigation using natural systems. On the heels of...
April 16, 2021 | Kelli Bender TomKat Ranch in Pescadero, CA, welcomed 850 goats from the Goatapelli Foundation to their property to gobble up potentially combustible vegetation to add some fire-proofing to their California ranch. After the San José State University...