{"id":802441,"date":"2026-07-15T00:47:53","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T00:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/802441\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T00:47:53","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T00:47:53","slug":"hundreds-of-grazing-goats-return-to-calgarys-nose-hill-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/802441\/","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds of grazing goats return to Calgary&#8217;s Nose Hill Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Goat grazing has <a href=\"https:\/\/calgary.citynews.ca\/2025\/08\/13\/hundreds-of-goats-baaaack-for-grazing-at-calgary-nose-hill-park\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">returned to Calgary\u2019s Nose Hill Park<\/a> this month as part of ongoing work to restore and maintain the park\u2019s natural grasslands.<\/p>\n<p>The City of Calgary says roughly 600 goats will be brought into a fenced section of the park between July 14 and July 30 to eat invasive weeds and thick vegetation. <\/p>\n<p>Visitors may notice temporary fencing, a shepherd, herding dogs, and occasional pathway closures while the goats are on-site.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"474\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/11-1024x474.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3980720\" style=\"width:1210px;height:auto\"  \/>Goats grazing at Nose Hill Park. (The City of Calgary)<\/p>\n<p>The city says the animals help replicate natural prairie processes once carried out by large grazers such as bison and elk, opening space for native grasses and reducing growth and dry vegetation that can increase fire risk.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTargeted grazing is one of the tools we use to support long-term ecosystem health,\u201d says ecologist Andrew Phelps.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The most visible changes happen quickly, according to officials, as the goats clear overgrown plants and thin out dense patches of vegetation. The long-term benefits are expected to develop over years.<\/p>\n<p>The city will continue monitoring the area over multiple seasons to track how the landscape responds.<\/p>\n<p>More information on goat grazing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.calgary.ca\/our-services\/goats-targeted-grazing.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/goat-pic-002.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" ratio=\"16x9\" decoding=\"async\"\/>\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\tGrazing goats are back at Calgary&#8217;s Nose Hill Park on July 14, 2026. (CityNews\/Max Latimer) <\/p>\n<p>\t\tKeep it Factual<\/p>\n<p>Add CityNews Calgary as a trusted source on Google to see more local stories from us.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=calgary.citynews.ca\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"add-trusted-source-badge\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1782746833_947_google-trusted-badge.png\" alt=\"Add as a preferred source on Google\" width=\"198\" height=\"63\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Goat grazing has returned to Calgary\u2019s Nose Hill Park this month as part of ongoing work to restore&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":802442,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194293],"tags":[49,2798,48],"class_list":["post-802441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-calgary","tag-ca","tag-calgary","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=802441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/802442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=802441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=802441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=802441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}