The North East Catchment Management Authority (CMA) is inviting landholders with properties in the Upper King Valley to take part in a new incentives program to tackle invasive woody weeds.
Expressions of interest will open on Monday 25 May 2026 for the King Valley Woody Weeds Incentives Program, which supports landholders to control problem weeds such as Black Willow, Grey Sallow, Blackberry and Chilean Cestrum.
The program follows a successful summer effort to remove willows from the King River between McCormick’s Swimming Hole and Cheshunt.
North East CMA Senior Project Officer Phillip Falcke said the work was already making a difference.
“We removed large numbers of invasive willows from the river itself, but many of these weeds are coming from further up in the landscape. This new program is about getting on the front foot and tackling the source of the problem,” Mr Falcke said.