BART employs grazing goats to create firebreaks on right-of-way property Jan Canaday/Courtesy BART is using grazing goats to create firebreaks in its right-of-way property. This will remove dry vegetation and act as an alternative to prescribed burns or herbicides. For Bill Stewart, a forestry and cooperative extension specialist at UC Berkeley, finding massive herds of goats chomping on dry vegetation in Berkeley has been a regular occurrence for the last 40 years. According to Stewart, it is not unusual to see 200 grazing goats near the Claremont Canyon Regional Preserve or Tilden Park. In fact, it is likely to become an increasingly common sight as BART uses goats to create firebreaks on its right-of-way property, according to a BART press release.