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A burial place in Washington, D.C. is using goats instead of poison to remove weeds. Congressional Cemetery, which opened in the early 1800s, is near Capitol Hill. Capitol Hill is where important buildings and business of U.S. government are located. Many former members of the U.S. House and Senate are buried there. The cemetery is also the final resting place of former FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) Director J. Edgar Hoover and famous Civil War photographer Mathew Brady. There are more than 65,000 graves there. Burials still take place today. In recent years, many weeds have grown in the cemetery. Officials did not want to use poisons, called herbicides, to kill the weeds. The cemetery is near the Anacostia River. Officials have worked for many years to remove pollutants from the river, which runs through the city.
* burial place = 매장지/ goat = 염소/ remove = 없애다[제거하다]/ weed = 잡초/ cemetery = 묘지/ members of the U.S. House and Senate = 미국 상하 양원/ resting place = 안식처, 무덤/ grave = 무덤, 묘, 산소/ official = 공무원[관리], 임원/ herbicide = 제초제/ pollutant = 오염 물질, 오염원
Lauren Maloy is the program director at the cemetery. She says because it is close to the river, “We are always looking for ways to make sure that we are sustainable, that we are not using pesticides that might hurt the environment.” So cemetery officials decided to use goats. The animals are less costly than chemicals and do not hurt the environment. And the goats eat a lot of weeds. The animals are owned by Mary Bowen, a farmer. She operates a company called Browsing Green Goats. The cemetery pays her company more than $11,000 to have the goats remove unwanted plants from each hectare of the cemetery. But Mary Bowen says that is about half the cost of using herbicides. An electronic fence keeps the goats from leaving the cemetery. Mary Bowen says she examines the fence every day. She says she has not lost a goat in five years.
* sustainable = 지속 가능한 / pesticide = 살충제, 농약/ costly = 많은 비용[돈]이 드는/ unwanted = 원치 않는, 반갑지 않은/ hectare = 헥타르(땅 면적의 단위. 1만평방미터 또는 약 2.5에이커)/ electronic fence = 전자 울타리
