Gischlar is a spokespman for the Maryland Highway Administration who helped launch a project that uses goats, rather than pesticides, to eradicate weeds from state-owned land. Why goats?
When we were building the Hampstead Bypass in Carroll County we discovered there was a bog that contained a federally-threatened turtle, so we shifted the alignment of the road to go around the bog. Then we had all this land that we couldn’t maintain with machines because it is so swampy, and we didn’t want to use chemicals. But if we left it alone, the invasive species of weeds would eventually take it over and destroy the bog. So one of our guys came up with the idea of using goats.
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