Goats Under Fire
* Re “Laguna Beach Stuck on Horns of Dilemma,” (May 22):
The Laguna Beach 1993 firestorm consumed 14,000 acres and 440 homes.
The goats eat a firebreak at an annual cost of 20% of what human crews would cost.
Biologist Elisabeth Brown states, “They’re eating stuff over here and [leaving] it over there. Everything’s getting moved around. . . . It’s not good. And it looks like hell to boot.”
Ecology instructor Allan Schoenherr states, “Basically we’re trading one kind of problem for another.”
To follow their logic, 440 homes destroyed and 14,000 acres destroyed is a “trade” for goat droppings.
DICK BROADWAY
Corona del Mar
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