Idaho's beautiful terrain is a treat for thousands of sheep who get to roam it as part of a longtime tradition.
In the video by Idaho Statesman, we see the herd of sheep and newborn lambs hop off trucks and eagerly run about on the Boise foothills.
This has been a constant scene for about 100 years as part of "Following the Green." The fluffy sheep travel across the land to the mountains for about six weeks, chewing on all the grass they want on the way up. And to put it simply, they get to eat their little hearts out.
But the animal migration is not only adorable to watch, it's also helping the environment. The sheep are unloaded in the area to chew away the grass that acts as fuel for wildfires, which dangerously spread in the months to come.
"It’s a great, historical, and cultural kind of baseline for Idaho and for Boise," Gretchen Hyde, executive director of the Idaho Rangeland Resource Commission, told Idaho Statesman. "Really cool opportunity to see some sheep close-up and see them working and doing the thing they do best and that’s eating grass."
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