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Goats and Dog Team Up to Combat Invasive Plants
9/23/2025
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Story summary
- Six goats and a Great Pyrenees dog named Beo were donated to help control invasives on Maclellan Island, funded by donations.
- Maclellan Island is a 19-acre nature refuge in Chattanooga, Tennessee, battling English ivy and Japanese honeysuckle.
- Last year, a prescribed burn by Jim Stewart failed; the city fire chief then suggested goats and Christina Herndon supplied the herd.
