Goats and sheep graze high-risk fire zones in Santa Barbara County to reduce fuel loads and mitigate wildfires.

Goats and sheep are being used to graze high-risk fire zones in Santa Barbara County to help reduce fire severity, as part of a major brush grazing effort by the Santa Barbara County Fire Safe Council. The initiative aims to protect residents in the area by reducing fuel loads in high-fire zones. Prescribed grazing is viewed as a versatile and ecologically-based wildfire mitigation strategy.