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Boot-washing stations installed to protect ancient bunya pines
The Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service (QPWS) has installed boot-washing stations at walking track entrances in Bunya Mountains National Park to help protect bunya pines for future times from a potentially devastating soil-based disease.
Ranger Adam Taylor said QPWS had been working with expert plant pathologists to investigate why a number of bunya pines in the national park had become unhealthy or had died.
“Extensive testing of soil and root samples found evidence of two introduced species of Phytophthora, a disease-causing plant pathogen, and scientists think this could be the cause,” Mr Taylor said.