RIDGELAND — Every time someone picks up a bar of Erin Link’s goat milk soap, she hopes they’ll think about the critically endangered San Clemente Island goats that helped make it possible.
The wrapper on every bar of soap she crafts on her EB Ranch in northern Dunn County bears information about the rare breed of goats that helped make the cleanser possible.
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