Sydney Weeds Committees Inc. is hosting a one day technical forum for weed management professionals and operational staff working across the Sydney and Blue Mountains region.

This one-day forum is themed ‘Weed Management: Working Together’, and is about:

• Building capacity of the weed management workforce in the region
• Sharing new technical information, knowledge, strategies and experiences
• Network and meeting new contacts in the industry
• This event is for local, state and federal government land managers, private companies, contractors/consultants, reserve trusts, non-government organisations and groups, and academics who are involved with weed management.

Lobby Activities

Victoria Ikutegbe, PhD Candidate, University of Wollongong
‘Getting to the ‘root’ of the problem: invasive garden plants and horticultural networks’
Victoria will be conducting interviews with delegates as part of her PhD research.

Pittwater Ecowarriers, Asparagus Weeds educational film screenings

Contact projects@sydneyweeds.org.au to request more information about the forum.

This forum is sponsored by the NSW Weeds Action Program, Hawkesbury-Nepean Catchment Management Authority and the Australian Association of Bush Regenerators.

Program

Keynote Speaker: Dr Paul Gibson-Roy, Greening Australia
“Managing our natural environment. What goals and can we achieve them?”

Jonathan Sanders, NPWS, SWC President
Bryce Wilde, Executive Director of the Natural Resources Commission, ‘Time to get serious: Review of weed management in NSW’
Stephen Johnson, DPI, ‘Weeds – Way serious!’
Andrew McGahey, Total Earth Care, ‘Control of Kudzu in sandy soils on the Nepean River Flood Plain’
Tegan Burton, NPWS, ‘Weed control & community engagement at Muogamarra Nature Reserve’
Jim Casmir, Warringah Council, ‘Bushcare in Warringah: the people and the places’
Matt Springall, NPWS, ‘New Weed Incursions of the Sydney region’
Robert Lester & Kayne Moreton, Local Aboriginal Land Council, ‘Weed Management from an Aboriginal Perspective’

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