Bushland Weeds Manual - Environmental Weeds Action Network

Acknowledgments
This manual is the culmination of a five year project that has been supported by the Environmental Weeds Action
Network. The project would not have been possible without the ongoing support of project manager, Margo
O’Byrne, and the project team Bob Dixon, Rod Randall and the extraordinary financial manager, Gary Matthews. Liz
Western generously stood in as manager for a year, supervising the project while Margo was away. Peter Nash and
Patrick Piggott also contributed to project management. The Swan Catchment Centre provided office space and
administrative support for three years. Sally Madden and Simone Tuten provided technical support in the early
stages of the project.
Production of the manual has been a collective effort. Kate Brown wrote the chapters on the project, managing
weeds in bushland, the geophyte weeds, the other herbaceous weeds and with Kris Brooks, the mapping
guidelines. Kris Brooks wrote the grasses, the woody weeds and the herbicides in bushland chapters. The maps
were compiled by Kris Brooks and Kate Brown.
Richard Groves, John Moore, Margo O’Byrne and Rod Randall provided valuable comments on various drafts, Bob
Dixon on the woody weeds chapter and Bronwen Keighery the managing weeds in bushland chapter. Their
comments greatly improved the final manuscript. Neil Gibson, Richard Groves and Janice Marshall proof read and
provided comments on the final document.
Throughout the project Greg Keighery, Bob Dixon, John Moore and John Peirce have generously shared their
knowledge of bushland weeds with us. They also provided much of the information in the weed management tables.
Community volunteers and Friends groups carried out much of the weed management work that forms the basis of
case studies outlined in the manual. They also helped us map weeds, set up trials and collect data. We would like to
thank The Friends of Shenton Bushland, in particular Janice Marshall and Dani Boase-Jelinek, Friends of Blue Gum
Lake especially Marian Watson, Friends of Brixton Street Wetlands particularly Regina Drummond, Trevor
Drummond, Nick Buters and Elizabeth Buters, Friends of Gingin Brook in particular Richard Diggins and Pauline
Diggins, and Friends of Talbot Road Reserve, especially Mark Gloyn and Helen Gardiner.
John Carter and Robyn Phillimore from Department of Conservation and Land Management, Grant McKinnon from
the City of Swan, Wayne van Lieven from the City of Gosnells, Graznya Packowskya from the City of Melville and
Steve McCabe from the City of Nedlands all went out of their way to provide invaluable on-ground support at
bushlands under their management.
The project was largely funded through a Natural Heritage Trust Grant, with the Lotteries Commission and the CRC
for Weed Management also contributing.
Kate Brown and Kris Brooks
September 2002.
All illustrations are by Libby Sandiford and all photographs by Kate Brown, unless otherwise noted.
The Environmental Weeds Action Network (EWAN) is a community group formed in 1996 to:
• Promote understanding of the threat of environmental weeds to bushland.
• Provide information about weed control in native vegetation.
• Convince governments at all levels of the need for appropriate legislation and funding for weed control.
• Encourage research into methods of weed control.
• Encourage community participation.
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