Goats Galore - Happy FWS Invasive Species Awareness Week

This video describes a five-year management project targeting invasive multiflora rose using an alternative means of biocontrol: goat grazing. The project detailed in this video was performed from 2019-2023 by the Erie National Wildlife Refuge in collaboration with Allegheny GoatScape and Allegheny College, in an effort to restore understory forest habitat, reduce invasive multiflora rose cover, and to obtain information on the impacts of goat grazing on forested habitats in Northwest Pennsylvania.

This video guides viewers through the results of the five-year study and provides insights on ways landowners and habitat managers can effectively utilize goats to reduce invasive plant species cover and improve the biological integrity of conserved lands.

This video was produced by Anna Westbrook, an Environmental Science & Sustainability Major at Allegheny College. The content of this video was created by the students of Dr. Richard Bowden's Forest Ecology Class at Allegheny College in Meadville, PA.