What a great idea, they should bring the goats out to Ten Pound Island to eat the poison ivy. Goats love poison ivy. To read please follow the link below from the Gloucester Daily Times.
http://www.gloucestertimes.com/news/local_news/article_1a1e65b0-3027-5b5c-8573-4f8f561ca942.html
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The goats were a great way to clean up the cemetery. Ten Pound Island is home to many breeding birds. Cleaning up the plant life could be damaging to this population. Why would we need to changeTen Pound Island?
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I think the goats would only eat the poison ivy, they are using goats in Boston to clean up land as well.
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I agree that goats are a great method of helping to clean up invasive plant species in places such as cemeteries however, poison ivy is a native plant. The berries are a tremendous source of food for birds and small mammals. They are ripening now, which helps sustain the song and shore birds on their southward migration. Poison ivy also helps prevent soil erosion.
Of course we don’t want poison ivy in our backyard play areas, but we don’t want to eliminate it from our wildlife sanctuaries.
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Thanks and very true, but when I was speaking to someone who raises goats, informed me that the poison ivy helps goat milk and goat cheese taste better. Also goats eating poison ivy help prevent using pesticides .. we must find a middle to help the environment, I love the birds and nature out on Ten Pound Island and Kettle Cove Island.
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The point is, do we need to use pesticides or goats at Ten Pound Island?
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so many people go out there, it would be great to keep it clean for nature,
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Ten Pound Island is not dirty. The wildflowers and wild native plants provide food for the birds, and the wildlife only enhances its natural beauty. When you kill the wild plants, you kill the wild life by cutting off their food supply.
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Another benefit of the conscientious use of goats-eating-poison-ivy in appropriate areas is that the goat milk could serve as a vaccine of sorts against getting poison ivy. Yes, you read that right!
An octogenarian gentleman at the farmer’s market two weeks ago told me that he always got terrible poison ivy as a kid until they had goats for a while, The goats loved the poison ivy and after drinking the goat’s milk he said he never got poison ivy again, even though he was still exposed to it.
And I really like the idea of getting the poison ivy out of my garden!
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Thank you this information
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