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A herd of goats stand in their pen before grazing on drought-stressed land as part of city wildfire prevention efforts on August 9, 2022 in Anaheim, California.Mario Tama/Getty Images
They're called nature's lawnmowers for a reason.
Goats are hungry, agile, and far from picky. Across California, herds of goats are being used to prevent wildfires — alongside more traditional forms of fire prevention.
Goats are carbon-friendly, prefer weeds to native plants, and can get up steep hills that humans and machines can't get to.
Here's how goats are working to prevent California's fires.
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