Salt Lake Telegram | 1909-02-04 | Page 2 | Angora Goats Will Become Fire Rangers for Government in National Forests

ANGORA ITS GOATS Will BECOME fIRE RANGERS fOR GOVERN IN NATIONAL fORESTS I WASHINGTON L Fob Fet 4 J Angora Anora n ora goats floats to the number of WOO will so fn n unconsciously do yeoman service service iCe for Undo Uncle dint h by gazing grazing off mile mil after mile of fire firo line lino through the tho hu bushy t. cite chaparral arral growth of ot the tho La Lassen nation al for forest t of oi California a. a j The contract for pre pressing in this thi band f of white whir animals into government so service ser ser- j I vice kl has b been bu eu III signed signed and th the experiment ment will bo hI undertaken next spring The Till goals gonta will Trill be given iven two to years in to which to lo make good on tho the job joh oh If Tf tl WY y como come up nT to uncle Sam Sams Sam's 8 exact exact- exacting ill fug ing requirements they will ill bo ho p permanently perma permanently placed on tho the governments government's roll rolls The scheme chemo is to run fire fir lines parallel paral let lel with the contour of tho slopes elopes by h. byj j r trails about eighty i rods apart which am no to In serve as guides for the Angora The They will graze grac in in each di direction di r from th the trails haiJ killing it is il estimated estimated es tim a strip of brush about thirty yards wide wid idt The Tbt vide d lanes cut out and graded Inthe by In- the goats oats will servo serve nc as ideal fire around tho the chaparral areas and will m also make maJo a place plarl lace for reproduction tion of merchantable merchantable merchant merchant- able tre trees