Pine Hill Soak Conservation Park

Pine Hill Soak Conservation Park is a protected area in the Australian state of South Australia located in the state's Limestone Coast in the gazetted locality of Bangham about 30 kilometres (19 mi) south of the town centre in Bordertown.[2][5]

Pine Hill Soak Conservation Park
South Australia
IUCN category III (natural monument or feature)[1]
Pine Hill Soak Conservation Park
Nearest town or cityBordertown[2]
Coordinates36.5442°S 140.8924°E / -36.5442; 140.8924[1]
Established17 September 1987 (1987-09-17)[3]
Area51 hectares (130 acres)[4]
Visitation‘low’ (in 1992)[5]
Managing authoritiesDepartment for Environment and Water
See alsoProtected areas of South Australia

The conservation park occupies land in section 67 of the cadastral unit of the Hundred of Geegeela on the eastern side of Frances Road. It is bounded by McCarthy Road to the north and by a vehicle track to its east and south boundaries. Land adjoining its south-west boundary is gazetted as a recreation reserve and contains a hall called the Bangham Hall and some tennis courts. Its name is derived from a soak known as Pine Hill Soak which is located near the conservation park's southern boundary.[2][5]

The conservation park was proclaimed on 17 September 1987.[3] As of 2012, access to the conservation park for the purpose of petroleum exploration under the Petroleum and Geothermal Energy Act 2000 was not permitted.[6]

In 1992, the conservation park was described as follows.[5] The land contains a field of “relict sand dunes and associated swale depressions.” The former landform supported a brown stringybark “open forest” with desert banksia being the “dominant shrub species” while the latter landform supported a “woodland of river red gum … and South Australian blue gum … with an open understorey of grasses, sedges and herbs.” The conservation park contains native pine which is “an occurrence close to the southern limit of this species' distribution” and which was considered as “suitable habitat” for the red-tailed black cockatoo - a species considered to be “threatened” at the time and which is “dependant on brown stringybark for food and nesting resources.” Further, visitation to the conservation park was described as “low.”[5]

The conservation park is classified as an IUCN Category III protected area.[1]

See also

References
  1. "Terrestrial Protected Areas of South Australia (refer 'DETAIL' tab )". CAPAD 2016. Australian Government, Department of the Environment (DoE). 2016. Retrieved 21 February 2018.
  2. "Search result(s) for Pine Hill Soak Conservation Park (Record No. SA0055325) with the following layers being 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 24 December 2016.
  3. "NATIONAL PARKS AND WILDLIFE ACT, 1972, SECTION 30: PINE HILL SOAK CONSERVATION PARK CONSTITUTED" (PDF). The South Australian Government Gazette. Government of South Australia: 886. 17 September 1987. Retrieved 19 March 2017.
  4. "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.
  5. South Australia. National Parks and Wildlife Service. South East District; Sutherland, Andrea; South Australia. National Parks and Wildlife Service (1992), Small parks of the upper South East management plans, South East, South Australia (PDF), Dept. of Environment and Planning, pp. 29–31, ISBN 978-0-7308-2665-1
  6. "PETROLEUM AND GEOTHERMAL ENERGY ACT 2000, Grant of Petroleum Exploration Licence—PEL 610" (PDF). The South Australian Government Gazette. Government of South Australia: 5511. 13 December 2012. Retrieved 19 February 2017.
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