... I have been doing a lot of slashing and burning over the last few days. Unlike the Huns of old who attacked the Roman Empire, I have been targeting Acacia melanoxylon, commonly known as "Black Wattle".
I've so far cleared two acres and will attack the remaining five after a bit of a snooze in the hammock. As for the pillaging and raping ...
P.S. To all you tree-huggers: if left unchecked, the self-seeding and rapidly growing Black Wattle will drive out everything else and leave a wooded desert where nothing grows and nothing lives. Here is a patch I had left unchecked for a couple of seasons:
Another silent killer of biodiversity is Pittosporum undulatum which is also on my hit-list as it is widely spread across the property.
