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  • Jun 21 2022
    Lani Malmberg Donny Benz Washington Post

    Goats with big appetites are front-line workers in fire prevention

    June 21, 2022 | The Washington Post | by Cathy Free ‘They have an appetite for the kind of vegetation that makes up the fire ladder,’ said Lani Malmberg, who manages goat herds and teaches people how to put them to work Lani Malmberg rounds up her goats on June
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    Fire Mitigation
  • Sep 28 2021

    These bleating hearts are useful

    September 28, 2021 | Sholeh Patrick | Ha-goat-one 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 their grass. I wondered if large-property owners might
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    Fire Mitigation
  • Sep 18 2021
    press new york times wildfire goats prevention goatapelli lani malmerg

    The Unconventional Weapon Against Future Wildfires: Goats

    Sept. 18, 2021 | New York Times | Coral Murphy Marcos | Photographs by Amanda Lucier The Unconventional Weapon Against Future Wildfires: Goats In Silverthorne, Colo., as her herd of goats graze along a bucolic hillside, Lani Malmberg wonders how much more the land can take. In 2020, Colorado experienced
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    Fire Mitigation
  • Aug 21 2021

    Goats help with wildfire mitigation and land management in Silverthorne

    August 22, 2021 | 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 the wildland-urban interface. Community members take
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    Fire Mitigation
  • Jul 14 2021

    California Deploys ‘Four-Legged’ Firefighters Ahead of 2021 Wildfire Season

    July 14, 2021 | Mukundarajan | 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 library. The safe
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    Fire Mitigation
  • Jun 11 2021

    Here’s why you might see hundreds of hungry goats while hiking at Standley Lake

    Jun 11, 2021 | The Denver Post | John Meyer 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 on June 8, in Westminster. The goats are
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    Fire Mitigation
  • Jun 09 2021

    CNBC Fighting fires with goats as wildfires rise in Western U.S.

    June 9, 2021 CNBC’s The News with Shepard Smith discusses fighting fires with goats as severe droughts and wildfires rise in the Western U.S. Brewer speaks with ranch owners who work with the animals to talk about how the goats consume vegetation and how that helps prevent fires. They even
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    Fire Mitigation
  • Apr 30 2021

    Goatapelli Foundation’s Lani Malmberg Interview

    April 30, 2021 | Celia Hoffman, TomKat Ranch Goats can stand on their hind legs, reaching vegetation from the ground to 9 feet high, minimizing the fire’s ability to catch on low-hanging tree branches. Goats at TomKat Ranch On April 6, approximately 850 goats arrived and immediately started grazing up
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    Fire Mitigation, Regenerative Agriculture
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  • Apr 30 2021

    Goatapelli at TomKat Ranch for Fire Mitigation

    April 30, 2021 | Kelli Bender | TomKat Ranch Fire Fighting Goats Deployed at TomKat Ranch TomKat Ranch has teamed up with Goatapelli Foundation and their herd of 26th generation “browsers” (animals that prefer brush, weeds, and woody matter to grass) to remove dry, parched vegetation from the landscape to
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    Fire Mitigation
  • Apr 30 2021

    Goats to the Rescue for Fire Fuel Reduction

    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 the third driest year on
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    Fire Mitigation
  • Apr 16 2021
    Goats grazing to prevent forest fires. Credit: TomKatRanch

    Hungry Firefighting Goats are Helping California Prepare for the 2021 Wildfire Season

    April 16, 2021 | Kelli Bender | TomKat Ranch TomKat Ranch in Pescadero, California, welcomed 850 goats from the Goatapelli Foundation to their property to gobble up potentially combustible vegetation Looking to add some fire-proofing to your California ranch? Call a goat! After the San José State University (SJSU) Fire
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    Fire Mitigation

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