Green Island Vineyard in American Canyon is at the center of a heated political debate and its fate could jeopardize the future of Napa’s wine industry.
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They re also pretty darned cute.
Goats-for-hire graze through underbrush in Soda Canyon, naturally clearing away fuel that feeds wildfires.
Inspired by a holistic approach to land management, and motivated to do something to prevent a future âcycle of evacuations from wildfires,â Calistogaâs Charlotte Williams has entered the scrub-eating goat business.
âOn either side of Napa Valley thereâs an overload of brush caused by too many plants vying for precious groundwater. Human labor to remove the scrub is expensive, and controlled burns can be dangerous in the shorter and shorter wet periods, and also put more carbon into the air,â Williams said.