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US state mows with goats to go gently on environment
"Lawnmowers would have been more expensive than using goats -- and any time we find a solution that helps the environment, we're going to take a look at it."
- David Buck, State Highway Administration spokesperson
Officials in the eastern US state of Maryland have come up with an innovative, cost-saving way to protect the environment: they use goats to mow the grass.
The State Highway Administration came up with the novel idea while building an 85-million-dollar road bypass near the town of Hampstead, northwest of Baltimore, after it found that the construction site was home to bog turtles, the smallest turtle in the United States and a threatened species.