LA County Fire Department Goat Grazing Program
Official county fire department goat grazing program for fuel reduction on county land.
Source: LA County Fire (official) →
Reviewed 2026-07-14
Targeted grazing in California: the resource center
A growing, sourced database of who's grazing in California — official fire-agency programs, city projects, grant programs, utilities, and research. Every entry links to its primary source and shows when we last reviewed it.
Laguna Beach Goat Grazing Program
City fuel-break grazing program operating since the early 1990s, expanded after the 1993 fire; 75–1,000 goats per year, ~$185,000 annual budget per the city.
Source: City of Laguna Beach (official) →
Reviewed 2026-07-14
Santa Rosa Wildfire Fuel Reduction Grazing
Repeated city deployments of goats on open space for wildfire fuel reduction since the Tubbs Fire.
Source: City of Santa Rosa (official) →
Reviewed 2026-07-14
Fire Safe Marin Goat Grazing Program
Community wildfire-prevention organization promoting and coordinating goat grazing for fuel reduction in Marin County.
Source: Fire Safe Marin →
Reviewed 2026-07-14
SoCalGas Facility Fire-Mitigation Grazing
Utility-documented goat grazing for fire-risk reduction at SoCalGas facilities and surrounding neighborhoods.
Source: SoCalGas (official newsroom) →
Reviewed 2026-07-14
Glendale Fire Department Contracted Grazing
Fire department contracts herds to reduce wildfire risk in the hills above the city (per NPR reporting).
Source: NPR →
Reviewed 2026-07-14
Yorba Linda CalFIRE Fuel Mitigation Grant Project
Grant-funded integrated fuel-reduction project combining goat grazing, hand crews, and mechanical abatement.
Source: City of Yorba Linda (official) →
Reviewed 2026-07-14
CAL FIRE Wildfire Prevention Grants
State grant program funding hazardous fuel reduction, explicitly including "seasonal and temporary prescribed grazing using temporary infrastructure." FY 2025–26 applications closed July 8, 2026.
Source: CAL FIRE (official) →
Reviewed 2026-07-14
SB 675 — Prescribed Grazing Local Assistance Grant Program
Signed September 2024: adds prescribed grazing to fire-prevention activities eligible for local assistance grants and requires a statewide strategic action plan to expand prescribed grazing.
Source: California Legislature (official) →
Reviewed 2026-07-14
FY 2025–26 Wildfire Prevention Grants Listing
Official state portal listing for the wildfire prevention grant cycle; up to ~$950,000 recommended per application, 3-year performance periods.
Source: California Grants Portal (official) →
Reviewed 2026-07-14
Reagan Presidential Library Grazed Firebreak (Easy Fire)
Up to 500 goats grazed ~13 acres in May 2019; the grazed buffer helped firefighters defend the library during the October 2019 Easy Fire.
Source: CNN →
Reviewed 2026-07-14
BLM California Fuel-Reduction Grazing
Reporting found roughly a third of BLM fuel-treatment acres in California involve grazing, with grazed acreage more than doubling 2018–2022.
Source: Civil Eats →
Reviewed 2026-07-14
UC ANR Targeted Grazing Research & Wage Analysis
California Agriculture journal analysis of the targeted-grazing sector, herder wage law (AB 1066 / SB 143), and sector economics.
Source: California Agriculture (UC ANR) →
Reviewed 2026-07-14
No entries match those filters yet — this library grows continually.
What this library will grow into
This resource center is built to expand: a statewide grazing-project map, a city and county grazing-program database, a government bid and RFP tracker, an invasive-plant grazing database (see the start of it in our plant library), a fire-season vegetation calendar (see booking timing), and directories of funding programs, Fire Safe Councils, and Resource Conservation Districts. Every future record follows the same rule as the ones above: primary source, review date, no exceptions.
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