MAPLE LEAF - Seattle City Light will once again use goats to clear brush from its North Seattle Substation, starting the week of Monday, June 24.
The 280 goats from Healing Hooves L.L.C., which were used last year to clear the overgrown slope on the north end of the substation property, will now clear the spring blackberry and ivy growth for five days.
The goats will be kept in a fenced enclosure and will have a border collie to guide them back and forth between the fenced enclosure and the area to be cleared.
A portable, electrified livestock fence will keep the goats away from the substation's electrical equipment and the street.
Human crews have been removing the thick trunks along the fence line and opening up paths for the goats to reach the most remote parts of the nearly one-acre area in the substation.
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