Funding decrease threatens successful prickly acacia control program

Sally Gall
Updated October 31 2018 - 1:19am, first published 1:15am
Desert Channels Queensland and landholders have been dealing with prickly acacia thick enough to lose man and machine. Photos supplied.
Desert Channels Queensland and landholders have been dealing with prickly acacia thick enough to lose man and machine. Photos supplied.

A prickly acacia eradication program that few believed possible has finished its first five-year step covered in achievements but with an uncertain funding future.

Sally Gall

Sally Gall

Senior journalist - Queensland Country Life/North Queensland Register

Based at Blackall, CW Qld, where I've raised a family, run Merino sheep and beef cattle, and helped develop a region - its history, tourism, education and communications. Get in touch at 0427 575 955 if you've got a story idea for me.

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