Gorse Blackberry Poisoning Services – Victoria

Gorse is one of the most invasive and costly weeds in southern Australia. It is like a green cancer, invading
and infesting pasture, cropping land, plantations, roadsides, urban blocks, river banks, native vegetation
and degraded sites. Currently gorse invades over five states of Australia, covering and making unusable
up to 1 million hectares of land. It has a potential range of over 87 million hectares of Australia.

Gorse imposes an enormous financial burden on land managers. It reduces the carrying capacity of
pasture, is a serious fire hazard, harbours feral animals, degrades native vegetation, carries significant
control costs and has a negative effect on land values. These are just some of the gorse-imposed costs
with which land managers have to cope, and for which the general community ultimately pays.
This is the 2nd edition of the Gorse National Best Practice Manual. It is a fully integrated best practice
document which includes comprehensive instructions for mapping gorse, planning a control program,
undertaking the work and following-up. It is the definitive guide for land managers to inform themselves
about how to plan gorse control and ultimately eradicate gorse from their properties and the Australian
landscape.

The manual describes the latest trailed best practice gorse management, with enough detail
in easy-to-understand language to allow land managers to confidently take on eradicating gorse and win.
We are all used to hearing people saying “gorse cannot be eradicated” and using its persistence (gorse
seed is viable for at least 25 years, there can be up to 400 million seeds per hectare in the soil) as an
excuse to do nothing or concentrate on control.

Land managers know it is hard to eradicate gorse, but nonetheless, we also know successful gorse control
and eradication has been demonstrated and is possible. Over the last 3 years many land managers have used
the best practice manual to not only plan treatment but have started to eradicate Gorse from their lands.

The Victorian Gorce Task Force has a comprehensive guide on the eradication of Gorse.

The Victorian Blackberry Task Force has a comprehensive guide on the eradication of Blackberry.

Advanced Weed Solutions is a highly dedicated team of licensed experienced professionals that will use multiple weed control techniques to offer the best solution for your weed problems.