Efforts are continuing to clear feral olive trees which have infested many parts of the Indigo Shire.
Almost all of the tress have been removed along roads in the Rutherglen and Chiltern areas as part of a three-year program to re-establish native plants in the region.
Feral olive trees often carry diseases and pests such as the olive fly.
Arborist Andrew Ollington says the young olive trees were the most difficult to detect.
"The little ones, we've just got to pretty much get down on our hand and knees and crawl through under all the other trees and cut them out and poison them," he said.
"We had to get them done before the fruit came on them - that's when they get spread."
[Source: ABC News]
Almost all of the tress have been removed along roads in the Rutherglen and Chiltern areas as part of a three-year program to re-establish native plants in the region.
Feral olive trees often carry diseases and pests such as the olive fly.
Arborist Andrew Ollington says the young olive trees were the most difficult to detect.
"The little ones, we've just got to pretty much get down on our hand and knees and crawl through under all the other trees and cut them out and poison them," he said.
"We had to get them done before the fruit came on them - that's when they get spread."
[Source: ABC News]
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