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Successional Weed Management
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Posted by brushturkey
477 days ago
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SUCCESSIONAL WEED MANAGEMENTDISCUSSION PAPER, By Spencer Shaw, Brush Turkey Enterprises, August 2010.
“We must remember that good bush regeneration is not weed control, but that it is the restoration of native ecosystem function.
This may seem like semantics and somewhat philosophical, because weed control is all that we seem to be doing in bush regeneration – but our focus is on ecological management and the restoration of native ecosystem function.
What we should focus on is not so much control of all weeds, but restoring ecological function through control of weeds if and as required.
Some weeds may assist or be able to participate in ecological function and ecological succession for the purpose of restoring native ecosystem function – some weed may have negative a...