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Goats Tackle City Property Weeds

Item: City of Cd'A gets its goats: Animals clearing weeds around city well sites where mechanical, chemical methods can't be used/Alecia Warren, Coeur d'Alene Press

More Info: So they were open to Suzanne Forte's business proposition: She would clear one of the well sites her way for free, and if the city was satisfied, it could pay her to do the others. What the city got was immaculately cleared acreage around the well, and Forte was quickly hired to take care of more sites. Her great landscaping secret: Goats. "They eat everything down to within an inch of the rock. Every type of weed that was in there," Pickel said.

Question: Have you ever owned a goat?



D.F. Oliveria
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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