Free Herbicide use Training and Accreditaion!

Are you a landholder in the ACT or in the Googong or Upper Murrumbidgee catchments south of the ACT?

Are you working with herbicides as a Park Carer/landcarer in the ACT or in the Googong or Upper Murrumbidgee catchments south of the ACT? Now is the time to get herbicide use training and accreditaion free!

This course will upgrade your chemical application skills, ensure your machinery is working correctly, help with having up to date records and provide chemical use AQF3 accreditation or reaccreditation if required.

Are you a land manager in the Adaminaby region?

Do you have native grassland or woodland vegetation on your property?

Would you like support and funding to help manage this native vegetation?

If the answer is YES, then this opportunity is for you!

Serrated Tussock is an introduced perennial tussock grass that poses a threat to agricultural systems, native grasslands and urban areas alike, and is slowly spreading throughout the Murrumbidgee catchment and surrounding areas.

• What's That Weed?
• Will It Poison My Stock?
• Or My Neighbours' Stock?
• Am I Obliged to Control It?
• How Do I Manage It?

Come to London Bridge homestead (right at the end of London Bridge Road)

Palerang Weeds Officers and Googong Foreshores Rangers will answer your questions.

See and hear what they're doing and what we can all do on our blocks.

Flying blind and working alone doesn't work.

Working together, we can keep weeds under control.

Interested in learning more about herbicide application?

Are you a landholder in the ACT or in the Googong or Upper Murrumbidgee catchments south of the ACT?

Are you working with herbicides as a Park Carer/landcarer in the ACT or in the Googong or Upper Murrumbidgee catchments south of the ACT? If you fall into any of these categories and want to upgrade your chemical application skills, ensure your machinery is working correctly, enable up to date records and gain accreditation or reaccreditation then read on.

Come and hear how a local landholder, native plant experts, Bush Heritage Australia, NSW Department of Primary Industries and Cooma-Monaro Shire Council manage the scourge of the ACT/Monaro region - African Lovegrass.

The workshop is free and a BBQ lunch will be provided. For more information, and to register, please see the attached flyer.

Environmental Weeds

Current Policies and Practices

The Weed Society of NSW Inc will hold a one day forum at The Epping club on 27 July 2011. For more information, please see the attached flyer.

Recently a local landholder brought to the attention of the Noxious Weed Management services an infestation of Mintweed (Salvia reflexa) in the area along Cooma Creek south of Cooma.

Mintweed is not a declared noxious weed in the Cooma Monaro Shire; however, due to its invasive nature as well as being potentially toxic to livestock, the Noxious Weeds Committee has supported efforts to contain this incursion.

African Lovegrass (ALG) is a highly invasive environmental and agricultural weed in the region.

Redgrass African lovegrass mix.

‘Living with Lovegrass’ a forum designed around learning from each other on how to manage African Lovegrass was held at the Namadgi Visitor Centre on Saturday 22nd May. Around sixty people attended the forum and it was interesting to hear the range of views expressed about lovegrass. Some graziers expressed the view that lovegrass is here, cattle can use it, so perhaps we are better off devoting resources to Serrated Tussock. Others thought that lovegrass is potentially our worst environmental and agricultural weed species. Whatever the view there is no denying African lovegrass is a highly persistent, summer growing, perennial grass weed that is invading rural properties, urban parklands and roadsides and nature reserves across our region.