Re: Brambles

   Date: Sun, 02 May 1999 21:51:12 -0800
   From: Paul Harrar <paul@nevco.k12.ca.us>

   A herd of goats?
   In California, goat herds are used for extensive vegetation
   control/removal for fire protection. Goats will even mow down poisen oak
   and blackberries. I'm not sure what "brambles" you are referring to, but
   using herbicides of any kind should be a last resort.

I was going to make the same suggestion.  Goats are common around here for
that purpose.  But I wanted to note that when a place (a university, the
city, etc) wants to use goats they simply hire them out from a farm that
specializes in that.  They don't have to maintain their own goat herd.  I
don't know if there are goats for hire in Spain but I would guess it would
be fairly simple to work out an arrangement with some local goat owners.
Pay them to supervise the goats too.

Cyndi

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