Tablelands council conducts weed survey

Posted Tue Aug 5, 2008 11:32am AEST

* Map: Mareeba 4880

Officers from the Tablelands Regional Council will soon fan out across
a large area west of Mareeba as part of a major weed survey.

Mayor Tom Gilmore says officers will be looking for parthenium and
rat's tail between Hurricane Station and O'Briens Creek.

He says the council wants to know if the weeds have reinfested areas
that have been previously cleared.

Councillor Gilmore says property owners in the area will be notified.

"They should have no concerns about musters being disrupted or things
of that nature because our staff will be talking with them, making
sure they're cooperative with anything that the land-holders are
doing, because we don't want to get involved in making a mess of what
they're doing on a day-to-day basis," he said.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/08/05/2324461.htm