North Coast Weeds Advisory Committee.

Cat's Claw Creeper Seminar - 14

th

May 2009

I attended the NCWAC's Cat's Claw creeper

(Macfadyena unguis-cati)

field day

which started at the Grafton Agricultural Research Station at Trenayr, and later

moved to inspect a field site at Whiteman Creek on the Clarence Way.

Excellent presentations by a number of speakers impressed the 60 to 70 attendees

with the enormity of the problem facing the patently inadequate number of “Green

Teams" currently attacking the problem.

The function also saw the launch of NCWAC's

“Northern Rivers Invasive Plants Action Strategy" by

the Chair of the Northern Rivers Catchment

Management Authority, Judy Henderson.

Ms Henderson also took the opportunity to call for

the conservation of agricultural land, pointing out

that, with the onset of climate change, areas like the

North Coast could become the nation's food bowl.

Some of the 60 to 70 attendees enjoying morning tea at the Cats Claw creeper seminar,

held at the Grafton Agricultural Research Centre.