Walk
a small distance from Stirling centre and enter the main park from Ethel
Street or Branch Road. Within minutes you find yourself in a peaceful
valley, surrounded by natural vegetation. Walk a little further and
you arrive at a reed fringed wetland - Lake Woorabinda. Continue on
and you enter a cool woodland of stringy bark eucalypts and other native
shrubs.
Woorabinda Bushland Reserves is 34 hectares in extent with a number of creeklines forming part
of the Aldgate Creek sub-catchment of the Onkaparinga River. There are
four areas: Stirling Park, Woorabinda, Hender Reserve and Madurta Reserve
(walkways connect Madurta Reserve with the main park). The park is a
valuable community resource with opportunities for recreation and education.
With local Council
assistance the Friends of Woorabinda Bushland Reserves Inc. have developed a
management plan for the park. The work of dedicated volunteers, who
carry out regular care and maintenance, is vital to the successful implementation
of the plan and the protection of this important water catchment.
Some of the Friends activities are:
- bushcare
- weed control
- revegetation:
- seed collection
- direct seeding
- propagation
of tubestock
- planting
of tubestock
- environmental
monitoring:
- biodiversity
- with Bushcheck
- photopoint
monitoring
- mapping - detailed
recording of:
- plant types
- weed infestation
- extent of
wetlands
- heritage
trees
- denuded and
degraded areas
- planning:
- walking trails
- bicycle paths
- bridges
- boardwalks
- environmental
workshops:
- seed collecting
- plant identification
- bird identification
- applying for
grant funding for projects
- reporting on
projects
- publishing regular
newsletters.
The Friends of Woorabinda Bushland Reserves Inc. are committed to the preservation of the Reserves in perpetuity.
If you share this vision, why not join the Friends? Want
more information?
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