Behind the Badge
A herd of about 180 Boer, Spanish, and Nubian goats cleared vegetation in Deer Canyon Park in Anaheim on Aug. 8, a regular people-pleasing strategy of managing and clearing vegetation to protect nearby homes from possible wildfires.
AF&R contracts with Environmental Land Management to use goats to gobble up fuels that would feed a brush fire.
Below are images of the goats.
A couple of goats engage in a few head butts as they eat the brush at Deer Canyon Park Reserve.
Photo by Steven Georges/Behind the Badge
A couple of goats lock horns as they eat the brush at Deer Canyon Park Reserve.
Photo by Steven Georges/Behind the Badge
Anaheim Fire & Rescue uses goats to graze the grass at Deer Canyon Park Reserve in Anaheim Hills as a natural wildfire preventative measure.
Photo by Steven Georges/Behind the Badge
A goat helps clear the weeds and brush, which includes poison oak, at Deer Canyon Park Reserve. Goats are able to eat poison oak without any harm.
Photo by Steven Georges/Behind the Badge
A couple walks by as goats clear the brush in a fenced-off area of Deer Canyon Park Reserve in Anaheim Hills on Aug. 8.
Photo by Steven Georges/Behind the Badge
Justin Day, a community risk reduction officer at Anaheim Fire & Rescue, checks on one of the two heard dogs looking after the goats at Deer Canyon Park Reserve.
Photo by Steven Georges/Behind the Badge
A small tree serves as a way for a goat to scratch an itch.
Photo by Steven Georges/Behind the Badge
A resourceful goat gets the leaves from the branch of a small tree as it and others eat their way through Deer Canyon Park Reserve in Anaheim Hills.
Photo by Steven Georges/Behind the Badge
A goat eats its way through the weeds and other brush at Deer Canyon Park Reserve in Anaheim Hills on Aug. 8.
Photo by Steven Georges/Behind the Badge
Justin Day, a community risk reduction manager at Anaheim Fire & Rescue, with one of the goats at Deer Canyon Park Reserve.
Photo by Steven Georges/Behind the Badge
Goats eat their way through the weeds and other brush at Deer Canyon Park Reserve.
Photo by Steven Georges/Behind the Badge
A curious goat at Deer Canyon Park Reserve.
Photo by Steven Georges/Behind the Badge
Justin Day of Anaheim Fire & Rescue gets creative with a few photos of his own of the goats at Deer Canyon Park Reserve.
Photo by Justin Day/Anaheim Fire & Rescue
Goats with ear tags at Deer Canyon Park Reserve.
Photo by Justin Day/Anaheim Fire & Rescue
Goats eat their way through the brush at Deer Canyon Park Reserve.
Photo by Justin Day/Anaheim Fire & Rescue
