Labor Leader Anna Bligh says endangered regrowth vegetation will be subject to a three-month clearing moratorium if elected, to allow talks between farmer groups and a new Labor Government about the best way forward on regrowth clearing.
The move is certain to anger farmers who are still seething over the Labor Government's current land clearing restrictions.
But Ms Bligh claims new limits on regrowth clearing would actually "right some of the wrongs" of the original legislation.
"I want to sit down and talk to farmers before taking any decisions," she said.
"But to allow those talks to occur without the pressure of panic clearing, a halt to regrowth clearing has to be enforced."
In December 2006, the Queensland Government banned the broad-scale clearing of remnant vegetation.
Extensive tracts of native forest in western parts of Queensland were "panic cleared" in an attempt to beat the ban.
But much of the vegetation has re-grown resulting in entire paddocks of new young native plants, which Labor says can be used to capture and store carbon.
"If we can keep this regrowth it gives us the chance to right some of the wrongs of the original clearing," Ms Bligh said.
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