The Trail Conservancy is turning to a rather unusual solution to its poison ivy problem: goats.
"The Hike and Bike Trail actually sits on 300 acres of parkland," said Heidi Anderson, CEO of The Trail Conservancy. "It's a lot to maintain and we have a lot of challenges ahead of us. One of them being poison ivy, which is one of the biggest complaints we get from trail users."for the clean-up project. Goats will be eating the poison ivy and other invasive plant species.
"They do have a training program that they have to pass," said Carolyn Carr, co-owner of Rent a Ruminant Texas. "They have to be able to respect the fence...They also have to stay together like a herd...and then the other thing is they have to maintain their work ethic...They don't need to come over to the fence and bother people and ask for handouts and stuff like that. They have to do work here.
More than a hundred goats will be spending the next three to four weeks along the Lady Bird Lake shoreline munching up poison ivy and other invasive plant species.
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