The work team of six men and women is spending four days removing the wattle, along with infestations of Taylorina and Arum Lily on the outskirts of the course.

Established by South Coast NRM and PVS Workfind last year, the work team program aims to provide both meaningful employment and training in natural resource management for the unemployed and remove a common, invasive weed.

Grove Park owner and manager John Harvey said the wattle was not a problem when he first arrived 13 years ago, but it had since overrun the 100 hectare course and large swathes of the adjacent Torndirrup National Park.

“We’ve had help from the City of Albany and the South Coast Progress Association in the past to remove the wattle but it just keeps coming back,” he said.

The team has already restored a 200 metre walking track on Mt Clarence, fenced kilometres of remnant vegetation in Denmark, Torbay and Mount Barker, and weeded and revegetated large areas in the region.