It’s a first for Nevada City: a Goat Fund Me page. City leaders hope to rent goats to graze overgrown areas in the city. The goal is to cut down on dry brush to prevent fires.
“As soon as we said “GoFundMe, everyone responded GoatFundMe!” said Reinette Senum, Vice Mayor of Nevada City. In Nevada City, the biggest need is getting rid of bushes, bark and blackberries.
“There’s a lot of them!” Senum said. “They’re thorny, of course, and they are covering up a lot of old dry tinder.”
The goats are trained specifically to graze and Nevada City wants to put the four-legged mammals on its payroll.
“What we’re trying to do is get the goats in there, cut back all the greenery so we can see what we’re dealing with and then we bring the hand crews in and cut it back,” Senum said.