Just days after they arrived in El Paso County to gobble up noxious weeds, 400 goats are leaving, fleeing hostile dog owners and vandals in Bear Creek Regional Park. Their owner, Lani Malmberg, is making good on a promise she made last year to leave the moment the park's culture of untamed dogs became too much to control. And after just a few days of chasing off unleashed dogs in the leash-only park, Malmberg is packing the herd up early for the first time in 18 years. For years, Wyoming-based herder Malmberg has brought her goats to the park to help control noxious weeds, a cost-effective weeding plan that eliminates the purchase of expensive chemicals, and gives the land some natural...
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