Mistletoe delivers a "kiss of death" to Killawarra Forest

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	Mistletoe delivers a "kiss of death" to Killawarra Forest

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3-3-2008 2:56 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/663b37a1-1c50-435e-acb3-8209dd162147/245EFC08-C0D4-4C04-A9AC-7DFB82AED0CA/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.nenews.com.au/Stories/chStory05n.htm" href="http://www.nenews.com.au/Stories/chStory05n.htm" style="font-size: 11px;">www.nenews.com.au</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nenews.com.au/Stories/chStory05n.htm"><P>MISTLETOE is killing our forests.</p> <P>That is the opinion of Sophie Mirabella (MHR, Indi), who was taken on a comprehensive tour of the Killawarra Forest by local farmer, Garnett Frost, last week.</p> <P>Mrs Mirabella was shown hundreds of examples of mistletoe growing on young and old trees and, together with Mr Frost, is calling on the State Government to control the parasite.</p> <P>"<B>Neglect is killing the forest,</B>" she said.</p> <P>"<B>You can’t just lock up thousands of acres of parks and hope for the best.</B>"</p> <P>In terms of what can be done about mistletoe, Mr Frost said in the past, it was either shot out of trees or, people would climb ladders and systematically cut it out of the forest, tree to tree.</p> <P>"<B>I guess it would cost a fair bit to cut it out of each tree,</B>" he said.</p> <P>"<B>I’d like to see a rust or a parasite introduced to control it.</B></p> <P><B>"<B>But you’ve got to get it past the greenies.</B></B></p> <P><B><B>"<B>They hold that mistletoe is natural, which it is.</B></B></B></p> <P><B><B><B>"<B>But it is slowly getting worse and worse.</B>"</B></B></B></P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/245EFC08-C0D4-4C04-A9AC-7DFB82AED0CA/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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