![]() RAPAD received 36 applications for a share in that money, but the funding only covered the cost of 17 cluster proposals. The Remote Area Planning and Development Board (RAPAD) was allocated $5.25 million for fencing projects in the central-west. Last year the State and Federal Governments put up $14 million for wild dog control, the bulk of which was allocated for cluster fences to protect sheep from wild dogs. ![]() "We are over the moon about it because we couldn't have hung on any longer with sheep," he said. ![]() Harry Glasson, from Greenlaw station near Yaraka, was one of the successful applicants. Seventeen cluster fence projects have been approved in the central-west, which will see more than 1,700km of wild dog fencing built. Graziers who have won State and Federal Government funding to build wild dog fences in western Queensland say they are "over the moon". ![]()
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