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Mendocino County’s smallest fire crew is 43 sheep
Fire season’s cutest fuel crew is working Caspar right now: 43 sheep the size of golden retrievers, eating the brush around the community center and growing next year’s wool while they do it. Black is the most common color; some run brown, gray or white. Some sport plain canvas coats to keep stickers out of […] The post Mendocino County’s smallest fire crew is 43 sheep appeared first on Local News Matters .
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Fire season’s cutest fuel crew is working Caspar right now: 43 sheep the size of golden retrievers, eating the brush around the community center and growing next year’s wool while they do it. Black is the most common color; some run brown, gray or white. Some sport plain canvas coats to keep stickers out of […] The post Mendocino County’s smallest fire crew is 43 sheep appeared first on Local News Matters .
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According to Local News Matters’s source item, Mendocino County’s smallest fire crew is 43 sheep, Fire season’s cutest fuel crew is working Caspar right now: 43 sheep the size of golden retrievers, eating the brush around the community center and growing next year’s wool while they do it. Black is the most common color; some run brown, gray or white. Some sport plain canvas coats to keep stickers out of […] The post Mendocino County’s smallest fire crew is 43 sheep appeared first on Local News Matters .
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