Kenneth Stirling Conservation Park

Protected area in South Australia

34°58′S 138°47′E / 34.96°S 138.79°E / -34.96; 138.79^[1]Established13 December 1990 (1990-12-13)^[3]Area2.44 km² (0.9 sq mi)^[4]Managing authoritiesDepartment for Environment and WaterWebsiteKenneth Stirling Conservation ParkSee alsoProtected areas of South Australia

Kenneth Stirling Conservation Park is a protected area in the Australian state of South Australia consisting of five parcels of land located in the gazetted localities of Balhannah, Basket Range, Carey Gully, Forest Range and Mount George about 18 kilometres (11 mi) east of the state capital of Adelaide.^[2] With a total combined size of 253 ha, the park is a excellent example of the eucalyptus woodland that once dominated the high-rainfall regions of the Southern Mount Lofty Ranges.^[5]

The park conserves open forest and open woodland formations of stringybark (Eucalyptus obliqua and Eucalyptus baxteri) with Candlebark (Eucalyptus dalrympleana) and Manna or White gum (Eucalyptus viminalis) on the lower slopes. Due to changes in land usage since European settlement, and the subsequent clearance of high-rainfall land in the Southern Mount Lofty Ranges, many of the species found in the park are now considered locally rare or uncommon. Some examples of these remnant high-rainfall species would be the pink boronia Boronia edwardsii, and the velvet worm Mantonipatus persiculus.^[5]^[6]

The conservation park was constituted under the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1972 on 13 December 1990 in respect to several parcels of land in the cadastral unit of the Hundred of Onkaparinga.^[3]^[2]

It was named after Kenneth Stirling who was “a major donor to the preservation of native vegetation in South Australia.” ^[2]^[7]

As of 2002, access to the conservation park for the purpose of mining exploration under the Mining Act 1971 was not permitted.^[8]

The conservation park is classified as an IUCN Category III protected area.^[1] It was listed on the now-defunct Register of the National Estate after late 1994.^[9]

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 ^d "Search result for "Kenneth Stirling Conservation Park" (Record no. SA0018627) with the following layers selected - "Parcel labels", "Suburbs and Localities", "Hundreds", "Place names (gazetteer)" and "Road Labels"". Property Location Browser. Government of South Australia. Archived from the original on 12 October 2016. Retrieved 13 March 2017.
^ ^a ^b "NATIONAL PARKS AND WILDLIFE ACT, 1972, SECTION 30 (1): CONSTITUTION OF KENNETH STIRLING CONSERVATION PARK" (PDF). The South Australian Government Gazette. Government of South Australia: 1755. 13 December 1990. Retrieved 13 March 2017.
^ "Protected Areas Information System - reserve list (as of 11 July 2016)" (PDF). Department of Environment Water and Natural Resources. 11 July 2016. Retrieved 14 July 2016.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Friends of Kenneth Stirling Conservation Park - Friends of Parks South Australia". Retrieved 8 August 2024.
^ Gallery, Cael (22 July 2022). "Mantonipatus persiculus". iNaturalist. Retrieved 8 August 2024.
^ Lawton, Colin (2002). "Stirling, Kenneth George (1935–1973)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Australian National University. Retrieved 13 March 2017.
^ "MINING ACT 1971" (PDF). The South Australian Government Gazette. Government of South Australia: 2980. 1 August 2002. Retrieved 19 February 2017.
^ "Place ID {{{1}}}". Australian Heritage Database. Australian Government. Retrieved 1 December 2018.