DFSC Success Story:

Goat Grazing Project in Hiller Highlands area of Oakland

Collaboration = Results

DFSC, with the help of Allstate Insurance, Hiller Highlands neighborhood groups (View map), the Oakland Fire Department, and Kaiser Elementary School completed a fuels reduction project in the Hiller Highlands area near the Caldecott Tunnel in Oakland.
Allstate Insurance, a longtime supporter of Fire Safe Councils throughout California, provided funding to use goats to manage the fire-prone vegetation on the site. The "patrol" of 400 goats, supplied by Ecosystem Concepts, Inc.[ http://www.ecosystemconcepts.com/ ] spent several days eating the vegetation on the steep hillsides as well as entertaining the students and neighbors.

	DFSC Executive Coordinator Carol Pranka (back center) and board members Gil Bendix (back left) and Ciara Wood (holding Monica) join Gordon Piper (front left) of Hiller Highlands Landscape Committee and Ecosystems Concepts Staff at May 2008 goat grazing project.
	Goats grazing on Hiller Highlands