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Skyscrapers, thoroughfares and hustle bustle are most often associated with cities.

But goats?

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Shepherd Jeannette Hall and her gang of 106 goats are hard at work in a City of Calgary pilot project — a target grazing program in Confluence Park in the city’s northwest.

“You’re just utilizing their natural ability to section out broad leaf plants,” says Hall, owner of Baah’d Plant Management and Reclamation. I love how deep they look into each person . . . . You make friends at the office, so I have a few favourite ones.”

Hall, who grew up in Calgary, is no city slicker.

“I started off as a conservation officer and I lived in the bush for two years with no electricity or running water in a 12- by 15-foot cabin, so I really got in tune with nature.”

Hall’s life of conservation was inspired by David Suzuki, whom she saw present one of his lectures during her university years. Her dog, a Great Pyrenees, is named for the famed environmentalist.