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October 04, 2004
Goats Expelled From Virgin Islands Park
Somehow the AP picked up this story about goats on St. John - pretty funny to find this on a website from Tuscaloosa!
By MAT PROBASCO
Associated Press Writer
October 04, 2004
Chewing exotic flowers and common weeds, the indiscriminate eating habits of free-roaming goats have earned them expulsion from a U.S. Virgin Islands national park, officials said Monday.
Goats, left behind by early European explorers for food on future journeys to the Caribbean, tear through the Virgin Islands National Park's 737 known species of plants - some of which are facing extinction, said Rafe Boulon, the park's resource management chief.
About 200 goats wander the 7,150-acre national park in St. John - a forest island where native species account for 85 percent of plant life - sometimes leaving behind swaths of bare ground from their voracious grazing, Boulon said.
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Posted by afinta at October 4, 2004 04:55 PM
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As long as they leave a little something for me to munch on.
Hmmmmm. A little bbq'd cabrito might just be the thing next summer if those goats are still there. JS3 bring your bow and arrow. I'll pop for the salsa
Posted by: promoguy at October 4, 2004 08:26 PM
I wonder if some of the plants on my lot in Peterborg are facing extinction since they seem to grow right through my grass with vigor. Maybe I could use a few of those goats. Spare the bow and arrow, bring the nets and I'll bring the Doritos so the salsa does not go to waste!
Posted by: Jack at October 31, 2004 06:51 PM
