Goat Green LLC

Ewe4ic Ecological Services

The Herders

Lani Malmberg and two of her skilled and efficient herding dogs Kip (left) and Betty that tend the herd.

With a background in cattle ranching, she’s a natural for the job. Her family’s ranch was on Twin Creek south of Lander, Wyoming.

Moving goats through Denver.

Lani left the ranch in 1986 during economic hard times and a cattle market low and moved to Colorado to manage ranches. She worked in the oilfield for a short time, then returned to finish college, earning the following degrees:

  • Associate of Applied Science degree in Environmental Restoration from Mesa State College in Grand Junction, Colorado
  • Bachelor of Science degree in Biology/Botany from MSC
  • Master of Science degree in Weed Science from Colorado State University in Ft. Collins, Colorado

Lani became interested in goats as a graduate student at Colorado State University in Fort Collins. While completing her master’s degree she studied the use of goats for environmentally friendly, chemical-free land restoration.

In 1997 she bought her first goats and has been grazing them for non-toxic land care. The rest is history.

“A day’s work done”. Taz the border collie jumps over the fence while his friend Bozo takes a last look at the goat herd before returning to camp for the night in Cheyenne, Wyo., on August 8. Ewe4ic Ecological Services of Alpine, Wyo., has brought 1,100 goats to Cheyenne for the second time this year to eat noxious weeds along two creeks. The goats have been working the front range of the Rockies throughout the summer. Photo by Larry Brinlee, Staff Photographer

What We Do

Lani Malmberg, with her herder dog Zippy, has a herd of over 1,200 goats that she takes upon request to places in need of weed management, brush control, re-seeding and restoration, erosion mitigation, or flood control. The goats provide a natural and more effective alternative to chemical pesticides.

Lani has an Associate of Applied Science degree in Environmental Restoration, a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology/Botany, and a Masters of Science degree in Weed Science.

Contracts are with federal, state, county, and city governments, homeowners associations, and private landowners for noxious weed control, fire fuel load abatement, re-seeding, watershed management, and land restoration.