Where people can’t tread, send goats.

“You couldn’t pay to have somebody come in here in 24 hours and do what these guys just did,” said Shalene Camp.

About 60 billies and nannies made short work of an overgrown, steep hillside at Meadow Ranch, a 55-plus community in Coeur d’Alene. The acre and a quarter were considered such treacherous terrain no landscape company would take it on.

And without some kind of regular maintenance, brush, weeds and other vegetation thrived, creating a fire hazard that had to be cleaned up.

Leshay Goat Ranch and Rentals to the rescue.

Within a few days after starting Friday, they cleared the hillside enough so a human should be able to safely make their way around and remove troublesome trees.

Residents of the Meadow Ranch Homeowners Association were impr

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