Penola Conservation Park
Penola Conservation Park (formerly the Penola National Park) is a protected area located in the Australian state of South Australia in the locality of Monbulla about 329 kilometres (204 mi) south-east of the state capital of Adelaide and about 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) west of the town of Penola.[2][5]
The conservation park occupies land in sections 255 and 256 of the cadastral unit of the Hundred of Monbulla. It is bounded by roads on three sides - Clay Wells Road (also known as the Robe - Penola road) to the south, Searle Road to the east and Rifle Range Road to the west. A wetland called Green Swamp located in its south-west was described in 1990 as “a semi-permanent wetland of approximately 10 hectares (25 acres)” while in its south-east corner, there is a “small disused quarry.” [2][5]
It originally acquired protected area status as one of two parcels of land proclaimed as a fauna sanctuary on 19 February 1970 under the Fauna Conservation Act 1964-1965 with the other parcel being located in the Hundred of Penola.[4][3] On 10 September 1970, Sections 255 and 256 in the Hundred of Monbulla were proclaimed under the National Parks Act 1966 as the Penola National Park.[6] On 27 April 1972, it was renamed as the Penola Conservation Park upon the proclamation of the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1972 which repealed both of the above-mentioned acts along with other statutes concerned with conservation.[3][7] The land was reported in 1990 as being previously used for grazing on the basis of the condition of the vegetation and the presence of a well at the edge of the Green Swamp.[5] As of 2016, it covered an area of 2.27 square kilometres (0.88 sq mi).[4]
In 1980, the conservation park's listing on the now-defunct Register of the National Estate argued it to be significant for the following reasons:[8]
A fine reserve preserving a range of habitat types representative of the stranded dune and swale terrain of the lower south-east of South Australia. The Park incorporates both dune and swale with associated seasonal swamp. Macropus rufogriseus, Trichosurus vulpecula, Tachylglossus aculeatus and Rattus leutreolus. The diverse avifauna is augmented by a winter influx of waterbirds.
In 1990, the conservation park was described as follows:[5]
…underlain by consolidated calcarenite dunes, overlain with red, weakly structured sandy soils and unconsolidated stranded dunes of bleached sands with a yellow-grey B horizon. Two large wetland areas have a marl base and black organic soils. River red gum flats have sandy, mottled-yellow duplex soil.
In 1990, the following vegetation associations were present:
- A “woodland or open woodland of brown stringybark” occupied the dunes.[5]
- A river red gum woodland with an understorey of “annual grasses and herbs and scattered shrubs” was present on “the flats associated with the wetlands.”
- “Isolated stands” of swamp gum and rough barked manna gum were present on “the edges of the wetter areas.”
- The north-west of the conservation park which was subject to periodic inundation supported “a large area of low heath.”
- ”Water-ribbons and yellow marsh flower” were present in the wetlands.
As of 1990, visitation consisted of use “mainly by local residents and schools groups” and “occasional” use for “bush camping.”[5]
The conservation park is classified as an IUCN Category III protected area.[1]
See also
References
- ^ a b c "Terrestrial Protected Areas of South Australia (refer 'DETAIL' tab )". CAPAD 2016. Australian Government, Department of the Environment (DoE). 2016. Retrieved 21 February 2018.
- ^ a b c "Search results for Penola Conservation Park' with the following datasets selected – 'Suburbs and Localities', 'NPW and Conservation Properties', 'Hundreds', 'Roads' and 'Gazetteer'". Location SA Map Viewer. South Australian Government. Retrieved 27 February 2018.
- ^ a b c Hall, Steele (19 February 1970). "FAUNA CONSERVATION ACT, 1964-1965: HUNDREDS OF MONBULLA AND PENOLA—FAUNA SANCTUARY DECLARED" (PDF). South Australian Government Gazette. South Australian Government. p. 794. Retrieved 27 February 2018.
- ^ a b c d "Protected Areas Information System Reserve List" (PDF). Government of South Australia. 14 December 2016. Retrieved 27 December 2017.
- ^ a b c d e f South Australia. Department of Environment and Planning, National Parks and Wildlife Service, South East District (October 1990), Sutherland, Andrea (ed.), Small parks of the Lower South East Management Plans : South East South Australia (PDF), South Australia. Department of Environment and Planning, pp. 3, 12 and 13, ISBN 978-0-7308-0481-9
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: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Shard, A.J. (10 September 1970). "NATIONAL PARKS ACT, 1966: HUNDRED OF MONBULLA-—PENOLA NATIONAL PARK DECLARED" (PDF). South Australian Government Gazette. South Australian Government. p. 1103. Retrieved 27 February 2018.
- ^ "No. 56 of 1972 (National Parks and Wildlife Act, 1972)". The South Australian Government Gazette. Government of South Australia: 660 & 701. 27 April 1972. Retrieved 27 February 2018.
- ^ "Penola Conservation Park (Place ID 8252)". Australian Heritage Database. Australian Government.
- This article incorporates text by Commonwealth of Australia available under the CC BY 3.0 AU licence.
External links
- Penola Conservation Park official website
- Penola Conservation Park webpage on the Birds SA website
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