According to the news outlet, the city announced the plan on Wednesday as part of a two-year contract for "sustainable vegetation management grazing services" that will help them reduce costs and carbon dioxide emissions. To make sure the goats don't get too close to runways, they will be separated from the airfield by security fencing and will remain supervised while on airport property.
CNN reports other airports that have brought goats in to landscape have seen mixed results. In San Francisco, goats are successfully used two to three weeks each summer to clear vegetation, which allows the airport to clear a firebreak without interrupting some endangered species that call the area home. But in Seattle, goats came and went within a week in 2008 because they were too effective, eating everything in sight - including native plants the airport wanted to protect.
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