Goats are particularly good at one thing: Eating. Unlike a horse or cow that leaves noxious weeds behind, goats eat the whole menu of pesky weeds, bushes and small trees. That means goats can be one ...

BRULE — Some goats were watching a big, black nanny goat as she struggled to push over a tall bush of buckthorn. But when the bush got down to their level, they pounced. It was a goat stampede to get ...

Mark Twain National Forest has launched an experiment: deploying herds of goats to eat kudzu and other problematic plants. Invasive plants such as blackberries and kudzu can turn a field from a grassy ...

Four-legged reinforcements may be enlisted to help battle invasive buckthorn in Lake County forest preserves. The idea is in the formative stage, but forest district commissioners appear amenable to ...

A nanny goat and her kid in Washington's Alpine Lakes Wilderness Area. (Terry Richard/The Oregonian/2005) Mountain goats are rare in Oregon, though if you hike in high places in Washington there is a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. SEATTLE (AP) — Helicopters and trucks are relocating hundreds of mountain goats from Olympic National Park in an effort officials ...

California has a wildfire problem — and it’s been getting worse and worse thanks to climate change. As communities figure out how best to prepare for future wildfires, some are calling in an ...

Visitors to Washington’s Olympic National Forest no longer need fear the wrath of the mountain goat. A trail on Mount Ellinor had to be closed last July after several groups of hikers reported ...

SANTA JUANA, Chile, May 14 (Reuters) - In the southern Chilean city of Santa Juana, hit hard by wildfires earlier this year, locals have a special taskforce helping fight blazes: a herd of goats. The ...

HOODSPORT — A popular trail in the Olympic National Forest remains closed while rangers harass aggressive mountain goats in an attempt to teach them to avoid people. It’s really hikers on the Mount ...

FOREST ACRES — The city may soon have a new, four-legged option for lawn maintenance. With a population of approximately 11,000 just north of Columbia, Forest Acres could join its larger neighbor in ...