Emily Dosdall offered to bring a herd of 50 goats to help clean up Diamond Bluff’s jewel, Sea Wing Park.

Dosdall said she’d oversee as the goats would clean up grasses and other vegetation along the Mississippi River. The town would just have to cover the project on its liability insurance, she told town board members at their monthly meeting Thursday, Feb. 9 at the Diamond Bluff Town Hall.

“It would be something that I would hope the town and the park might consider. I’m basically willing to provide my time and goats to clean the park ahead of the park cleanup,” she said.

It was a welcome offer. “I’m all for that. We’ve been trying to figure out how to get the goats out there, because they’ve been doing a good job everywhere else,” said parks committee member John Norquist.

“We can make it work,” said town board member Pat Atherton.

Dosdall said she did three similar cleanups with her goats last summer and would waive for Diamond Bluff the usual charge of $800 per acre. She’d bring the fencing to keep the goats where they’re supposed to be. Her concern with the liability insurance is the proximity to the railroad tracks and if there would be any citizen interference with the project.

“I’d be more concerned with the local traffic, people messing with the goats. They’re worth a great deal,” she said.

“It would be our liability,” town chair Jeff Holst. “It’s a capital idea though. I’m all for it.”

Dosdall thought the project could be completed in a day, and any tree the parks committee wants removed could be marked. They’d be cut down and the goats could feast on their leaves as well.

Town Clerk Todd Mehrkens will confer with the town’s insurer to make sure the project could be covered on the town policy.

Freedom Park in Prescott has “employed” goats to clean its river bluff, and they’ve also done work at Magee Park in Prescott.

“I’ll bring a formal proposal to the next meeting,” Dosdall said.