Goats get to work eradicating poison ivy on the Hike-and-Bike Trail.
Do you remember your introduction to poison ivy? Maybe it was an unfortunate brush with the plant itself, maybe a couplet helping identify the notorious weed. Whatever your experience, no one likes it – except for Austin’s newest trail groomers. For the next three to four weeks, the Trail Conservancy has employed 150 goats to eat the vile vine and other invasive species along the Hike-and-Bike Trail on Town Lake.
Anderson describes removing poison ivy from the trail as “a constant battle.” Due to the Hike-and-Bike Trail’s proximity to Town Lake, herbicides are out of the question because of water quality concerns, and pulling ivy from steep shorelines with thick concentrations of the plant can be dangerous for volunteers. But goats don’t mind.
“They have four-hoof drive,” says Carolyn Carr, co-owner of Rent-a-Ruminant Texas, the company that supplies the goats. “So they can go up and down terrain that we normally can’t go into with lawn mowers or brush cutters.”
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