Goat Mowers – A New Way to Eliminate Unwanted Plants

Congressional Cemetery — located near Capitol Hill — is the only American "cemetery of national memory" founded before the Civil War. Those buried there include legendary FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, famed Civil War photographer Mathew Brady, and many members of the U.S. Congress. But in recent years, the cemetery has been overrun by weeds, and officials didn’t want to use herbicides because of the nearby Anacostia River. Instead, the cemetery has adopted a new method of...

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