Vines meet infrastructure
Kudzu — the vine famous for swallowing the American South — creeps onto embankments and rights-of-way, including along railroads. Norfolk Southern highlighted using kudzu-eating goats as a practical, low-impact way to manage the vine on tricky terrain near its tracks.
Goats handle steep, brushy embankments that are awkward and hazardous for crews and machinery.
Grazing for rights-of-way
Infrastructure operators face the same core problem as any large landowner: vegetation in hard-to-reach places that must be controlled without sparks, fuel spills, or chemical drift. Goats fit that niche neatly.
It’s the same reasoning that leads utilities, airports, and agencies to grazing for their own corridors and buffer zones.