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North West Weeds
ABN 16 052 158 879
Postal address:
20 Dinoga Street
BINGARA
NSW 2404
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 Welcome
to our website!
Please note that the
Weed Lists
and Weed
Photos buttons
(included in the list on the left) open the doors to most of the weeds
information contained in this website.
About this website:
This
website is designed to provide landholders
and other land managers with basic information on identification and control of noxious and other
environmentally undesirable weeds found throughout inland New South
Wales, Australia.
While much of the
content is generic to many parts of eastern Australia, it particularly deals with weeds found
within that part of New South Wales covered by the
Northern Inland Weeds Advisory Committee
(NIWAC)
i.e the Shires of
Armidale-Dumaresq,
Glen Innes Severn,
Gunnedah,
Guyra,
Gwydir,
Inverell,
Liverpool
Plains,
Moree Plains,
Narrabri,
Tamworth Regional,
Tenterfield,
Uralla
and
Walcha. See
MAP.
This
website provides
links
to
council weeds officers employed by
the above councils.
 These experienced officers undertake property inspections,
provide advice on weed control and in many cases also operate a contract weed
spraying service (see services
available).
This website is also building a list of
PRIVATE SPRAY CONTRACTORS
available throughout the NIWAC region.
 For local
information on local weeds start
from the
WEED LISTS
page. If that doesn't help, try the
SEARCH page. If you
don't know the name of the plant you're looking for, run through the
WEED PHOTOS
section. If you still can't find what you're looking
for, ring your
local weeds officer or email the
webmaster!
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 Weed
Photos button
(far left) to view plant images. Some examples:
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Harrisia cactus (Harrisia martinii) is serious problem along the NSW/Qld border and continuing to spread south.... |
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St John's wort (Hypericum perforatum) continues to spread throughout NW tablelands and slopes. Causes health problems for livestock... |
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Tropical soda apple (Solanum viarum) established in northern coastal areas of NSW. Being brought inland with cattle movements. |
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Mother-of-millions (Byrophyllum spp.) is a garden escapee growing readily in the wild and a seriously toxic plant for livestock especially cattle! |
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FOR SALE: Weed mages available in high resolution
(mainly 2048x1536 pixels)
with/without captions, also smaller size (640x480 saved for web)
for websites and/or Powerpoint®
presentations. SEE
WEED PHOTOS
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 The
importance of noxious weed control:
Weeds pose a serious threat to human and
animal health, to primary production and to our natural environment. Weeds reduce farm productivity, displace native species and contribute to
on-going land degradation and reduced land values. (Photo shows
cattle dead after feeding on the noxious weed,
green cestrum (Cestrum
parqui.)
Many land holders do care about weeds, and
include weed control programs in their property management plans. Unfortunately, there are others who do not have the resources or the will
to maintain their properties as they should.
Land managers
aren't necessarily expected to
keep
their properties completely free of noxious weeds (unless it's a CC1 or
CC2 weed of course!). They are, however, expected to take reasonable
measures to keep weeds under control. Those who
do nothing are letting themselves and their neighbours down! They are
also liable to prosecution under the
Noxious Weeds Act 1993.
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Disclaimer
This is a privately-owned website, managed for NORTH WEST WEEDS,
Bingara.
The information contained in
this web site is based on knowledge and understanding at the time of
writing. However, because of advances in knowledge, users are reminded of
the need to ensure that information upon which they rely is up to date and
to check currency of the information with their local council weeds officer
or other independent adviser.
Copyright
To assist users, this website
provides links to associated websites and as far as possible acknowledges
the same in every case. If we have failed to acknowledge a site,
photograph or other object please advise the webmaster. Similarly,
persons using this website are asked to please acknowledge the source if
they choose to reproduce any articles or
photographs from this site. Unless otherwise indicated, all photographs
contained in this website were taken by and are the property of North West
Weeds, Bingara, NSW, Australia.
North West Weeds acknowledges the
support of weeds officers serving throughout north-west New South Wales in being able to provide this
website and its source of information for all landholders, land managers and
other interested persons within north-west New South Wales and beyond. |
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