{"id":842627,"date":"2026-09-10T06:28:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T06:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/842627\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T06:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T06:28:09","slug":"mountain-goats-head-home-after-clearing-st-joseph-riverbank-of-invasive-plants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/842627\/","title":{"rendered":"Mountain goats head home after clearing St. Joseph Riverbank of invasive plants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MISHAWAKA, Ind. (WSBT) \u2014 The herd of mountain goats on a foliage eating mission along the St. Joseph Riverbank in Mishawaka are headed home.<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday was their last day in the city.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/wsbt.com\/news\/local\/goats-clear-overgrowth-invasive-vegetation-landscaping-nature-naturally-new-zealand-mountain-parks-recreation-st-joseph-river-riverbank-mishawaka-indiana\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">More goats arrive at riverbank to clear invasive vegetation in Mishawaka<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The goats were deployed to the area around the Riverwalk last month to help clear out invasive plants around the riverbank.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/wsbt.com\/news\/local\/mishawaka-deploys-goats-to-clear-invasive-growth-along-st-joseph-riverbank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Mishawaka deploys goats to clear invasive growth along St. Joseph Riverbank<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mishawaka Parks posted on social media Tuesday night, saying these little celebrities helped open up views of the river, improved the ecosystem&#8217;s health and brought the community together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MISHAWAKA, Ind. (WSBT) \u2014 The herd of mountain goats on a foliage eating mission along the St. Joseph&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":842628,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,201],"class_list":["post-842627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=842627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/842628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=842627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=842627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=842627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}