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While building a highway bypass, Maryland highway officials made a great discovery. In the mud of a scruffy, brush-covered, 8-acre plot, workers found endangered bog turtles inhabiting the land. Ordinarily, heavy machinery and herbicides would be brought in to clear the area.
The problem: how to cut back the vegetation without harming the turtles?
The answer: invite a local farmer to bring in his herd of goats during the warm weather season to keep the land clear for the bog turtles.
With this softer, gentler solution, everybody wins: the turtles, the farmer, the state and the environment.
Read more: bog turtles, environment & wildlife, goats, maryland, sustainability, turtles
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Wonderful post - just like we use goats here to cut back the kudzu..as nothing else seems to kill it other than poisons (which they stopped usin now that they use the goats)...
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great!!!
Brilliant solution!!! Goats happy, turtles happy, everybody happy!!!
I am a goat owner, and I commend Maryland for this. I love my goats and this just shows that all God's creatures have gifts to give this world!
Though keep in mind that highways aren't exactly part of an earth friendly transport policy.
Thanks. Makes me proud to be a Marylander. I have read about a company (in CA I think) that rents out goats for land clearing. I would love to have a goat or 2, but my husband says "No".
What a treat to read to read about a group of officials that used such good common sense! I hope it's contagious :-)
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