Southern Star puts spotlight on evil camphor laurel

Our local paper, the Southern Star has reported on the 'evil camphor laurel doing enormous environmental damage. The article features comments from Wayne Cameron, President of Bulimba Creek Catchment Committee. B4C makes a huge difference protecting the local waterway through a wide range of initiatives.
Informing the community about the camphor laurel is vital, so few realise the destruction caused by the weed pests.
Community involvement in parklands and waterways will protect and enhance local assets.
My local area of interest is the Blackberry Street Parklands at Mansfield.
Initial targets in a war on the camphor laurel could be trees directly over the waterways, slowly working back to reduce their influence as more native species can get a foothold. Removing up to 5% of the biggest trees at least once a year would reduce the smothering of grass and and native plants.

A statement from B4C clarifies the article ... The opening paragraph indicates Wayne said that camphor laurel infestation is the fault of Council. Paragraph 4 discusses seeding time of these trees. Wayne did not make either statement to the reporter. While our Committee does not believe Council should cut down all these trees, a better way would be to inject the trees and replace with other native species in the area, in a staged manner over time. We wish to assure Council we appreciate the efforts of the Parks, Natural Area and Open Space staff in the control of weeds and establishment of native species to enhance areas within our catchment and Brisbane in general. We also believe more resources should be made available to address the impacts of camphor laurel.


My ideas about solving the problem here:

Need convincing about the need for education?

57 reasons why camphor laurels must go

Camphor laurel tree roots are not densely branching like the original Native Coolamon trees which used to historically keep the riverbanks ... www.camphorlaurel.com/57reasons.html