Hungry goats help clear brush on hillsides at Reagan library in Simi Valley

This bleating group of visitors to the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library & Museum in Simi Valley Thursday morning came with an appetite.

About 450 goats munched on grasses and brush to help reduce the fire risk around the facility's 100-acre campus. The tribe typically spends weeks on site filling bellies, trimming back the so-called fuels and lowering anxiety of the people who work and visit the library on the hill.

The staff and volunteers know all too well the hazards wildfire can pose. In 2019, the Easy Fire crept dangerously close to the structures and caused $500,000 in damage across the site. The blaze scorched signs, burned critical infrastructure and came within mere feet of the pavilion that holds Air Force One.

This article originally appeared on Ventura County Star: Hungry goats help clear brush on hillsides at Reagan library in Simi Valley