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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

June 8, 2022 | National Geographic | Chris Iovenko Goats have a well-deserved reputation as one of the planet’s most voracious and rugged herbivores. Perhaps then it’s unsurprising that goats are increasingly being recruited to help reduce the fuel load in the wildfire-stricken American West. The conditions for recent Western

May 18, 2022 | Colorado Community Media | Chancy J. Gatlin-Anderson Spring Valley Ranch community brings in 1,200 critters to clear brush The Spring Valley Ranch community in the northern Elizabeth area has adopted a natural approach to fire mitigation this year. Instead of plowing down the tall grasses to

October 5, 2021 | 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 vegetation (that) is known

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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