[CPEO-MEF] REUSE, NATURAL RESOURCES: Sheep to graze at former Fort Ord (CA)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Sheep return to graze Fort Ord land

By LAITH AGHA
Monterey Herald (CA)
February 24, 2010


The four-legged lawn mowers are back.
About 3,000 sheep will spend five months grazing the grassy hills in the 
Fort Ord area. Half of them arrived Tuesday, while the rest are expected 
to arrive today. The flock is made up of 1,200 ewes and 1,800 lambs.

"We use them as lawn mowers for the fire hazard reduction," said Bruce 
Delgado, Bureau of Land Management botanist. "They tend to 
preferentially graze the non-native grasses, which is good for us 
because we're trying to encourage the growth of native grasses."

The sheep will graze 2,500 acres of bureau land from Laguna Seca to 
Reservation Road, and from Monterey-Salinas Highway to Jacks Road in the 
Fort Ord area, where the grasslands give way to chaparral.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.montereyherald.com/local/ci_14460514?nclick_check=1

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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