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 Adel
aide. With a total combined size of 253 ha, the park is an excellent example of the eucalyptus woodland that once dominated the high-rainfall regions of the Southern Mount Lofty Ranges. 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. Examples of these remnant high-rainfall species are the pink boronia Boronia edwardsii and the velvet worm Mantonipatus persiculus. The conservation park was constituted under the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1972 on 13 December 1990 in respect to several...
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