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‘They’ll Chew Down Everything’: The Goats Are Back at the New Canaan Nature Center
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The New Canaanite 2024 Summer Internship Program is sponsored by Karp Associates. Invasive plant species here in New Canaan have met their match … goats! For the second straight summer, the New Canaan Nature Center has introduced goats to help combat invasive plant species in a chemical-free manner. The goats are sourced from a company out of Rhinebeck, N.Y., according to the executive director of the New Canaan Nature Center, Bill Flynn.
“[The company] does this all over the Northeast,” he said. “They rent [the goats] out who do their work, and then they go back.”
The goats are used primarily to remove an invasive plant called Japanese Knotweed.