Reasons to Reduce Fire Fuel Load with Goats. Goats:

• Goats minimize fire danger and sequester more carbon
• Goats are a cost-efffective way to reduce fire fuels with a comparably small footprint
• Targeted goat grazing significantly reduced undesired plants and increase plant species richness
• Goats reduce fuel loads over large acreages
• Goats reduce fire fuel ladders over large and steep, rocky, remote, or rugged landscapes inaccessible for equipment or hand crews
• Goat grazing improves the soil by enriching microbial communities
• Goat eat trees, brush, and weeds including poison oak, Cheatgrass biomass and cover, and invasive honeysuckle
• Prescribed goat grazing is an ecologically and economically sustainable management tool
• Goat grazing increases soil carbon sequestration, water infiltration and water storage, above and below ground biodiversity and resiliency to climate change

Reasons to Manage Weeds with Goats. Goats:

• Goats eliminate the use of harmful herbicides and pesticides
• Goats reduce your fossil fuel consumption
• Goats are bio-control agents used to control weeds
• Goats eat noxious plants like Hemlock, Poison Oak, Pampas Grass, Blackberry Bushes, Blooming Yellow Star Thistle, and Mustard species
• Goats slow down or prevent forest fires by eating the dry stuff before the fire season strikes
• Goats browse year-round and are an important part of grazing land management
• Goats do not compete with cattle for grass - they are browsers, whose diet consists of about 70% non-grassy species
• Goat grazing makes good cattle pastures and cattle grazing makes good goat pastures
• Goat hooves till and aerate the soil and trample in their own fertilizer
• Goats eat 3% of their body weight/day of dry matter (dry matter is like a bale of hay, whereas lush green food is mostly water)