This Georgetown neighborhood didn't want to clear-cut trees. The solution? Goats.
GEORGETOWN, Texas (KXAN) -- Toward the end of an old deer path leading down to the South Fork of Georgetown's San Gabriel River rests a herd of about 80 animals you wouldn't normally expect to see there.
Goats.After three days on the job in the Wolf Ranch neighborhood, the herd took a late-morning break before resuming its work clearcutting the vegetation.
Rather than bringing in heavy machinery or herbicides, the goats' teeth act as weedeaters; their manure as organic fertilizer.
Goats resting
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