Weed-Eating Goats To Help Clean Up Pittsburgh’s North Side

PITTSBURGH (AP) – A herd of goats has been slated to munch on weeds and other unwanted vegetation on Pittsburgh’s North Side.
The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reports the goat herd from Alleghany GoatScape will be eating invasive or unwanted plants, like poison ivy, to clear them from a public wooded land in the Perry Hilltop neighborhood.
(Photo Credit: KDKA Photojournalist Bryan Orr)
A $9,500 grant from the Allegheny County Conservation District is funding the work.
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