By Steve Annear
The Boston Globe
The workers contracted by the city last year to clear out two acres of overgrown brush and invasive plants at an urban wild in Hyde Park didn’t do such a baaa-d job. So the landscaping goats are coming back, this time with a larger role in Boston weed-whacking.
In July, officials will bring in three new herds of goats to chomp through brush. Two groups will get to work at the George Wright Golf Course, while another continues eating the poison ivy, buckthorn, and knotweed remaining after last summer’s efforts at the greenspace on West Street.
Ryan Woods, a spokesman from the Parks and Recreation Department, said officials were impressed by the effect that the one herd of four goats had at the parkland a year ago.
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