Kelvin Powrie Conservation Park Explained

Type:	protected
Kelvin Powrie Conservation Park
State:	sa
City:	Coombe and Keith
Iucn Category:	III
Iucn Ref:	^[1]
Coordinates:	-36.0316°N 140.2921°W
Pushpin Label Position:	left
Nearest Town Or City:	Keith.^[2]
Area Footnotes:	^[3]
Established Footnotes:	^[4]

Kelvin Powrie Conservation Park, formerly the Kelvin Powrie National Parks Reserve, is a protected area in the Australian state of South Australia located in the state's south-east in the gazetted localities of Coombe and Keith about north-west of the town centre in Keith.^[2]

The conservation park consists of land located between the Dukes Highway on its south-west side and the Melbourne–Adelaide railway on its north-eastern side on the boundary between the localities of Coombe and Keith. The conservation park occupies land in the cadastral units of the hundreds of Archibald and Stirling. It was originally proclaimed as the Kelvin Powrie National Parks Reserve under the National Parks Act 1966 on 4 March 1971.^[4] It was renamed as the Kelvin Powrie Conservation Park upon the proclamation of the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1972 on 27 April 1972.^[5] Its name commemorates James Kelvin Powrie, a "research scientist who discovered the trace element deficiency of the soil in this area, (formerly the Ninety Mile Desert)." As of July 2016, the conservation park covered an area of .^[3]

In 1992, the conservation park was described as follows:

1. Its landscape consisted of “a uniform limestone plain with isolated gently rising sand dunes” which passes through the conservation park in “a generally east-west direction” and which has soils described as being “generally deep acid bleached sands with a yellow-grey B horizon.”
2. Remnant native vegetation within its boundaries consist of a “pink gum low open woodland with a heath understorey” in its south, a”substantially treeless heath associated with low sandy rises” in its north and with “a band of coastal white mallee … woodland” passing through its centre from the north-west to the south-east along “the crest of the dune system.”

As of 1992, visitor facilities consisted of a “parking area and picnic site” catering “mainly for short stops by people travelling along the Dukes Highway” and a walking track that “leads from the parking area In a north west direction to the crest of a dune which affords a view of the heath association In the north” of the conservation park.

The conservation park is classified as an IUCN Category III protected area.^[1] In 1980, it was listed on the now-defunct Register of the National Estate.^[6]

See also

• Protected areas of South Australia

External links

• Webpage for the Kelvin Powrie Conservation Park on the Protected Planet website
• Webpage for the Kelvin Powrie Conservation Park on the Birds SA website

Notes and References

1. Web site: Terrestrial Protected Areas of South Australia (refer 'DETAIL' tab) . CAPAD 2016. Australian Government, Department of the Environment (DoE) . 21 February 2018 . 2016.
2. Web site: Search result(s) for Kelvin Powrie Conservation Park (Record No. SA0033730) with the following layers being selected - "Parcel labels", "Suburbs and Localities", "Hundreds", "Place names (gazetteer)" and "Road labels" . Government of South Australia . Property Location Browser . 18 March 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20161012010923/http://maps.sa.gov.au/plb/ . 12 October 2016 . dead .
3. Web site: Protected Areas Information System - reserve list (as of 11 July 2016). Department of Environment Water and Natural Resources. 11 July 2016 . 14 July 2016.
4. NATIONAL PARKS ACT, 1966: HUNDREDS OF ARCHIBALD AND STIRLING—KELVIN POWRIE NATIONAL PARKS RESERVE DECLARED . The South Australian Government Gazette . 4 March 1971 . 959 . 18 March 2017 . Government of South Australia.
5. No. 56 of 1972 (National Parks and Wildlife Act, 1972) . The South Australian Government Gazette . 27 April 1972 . 701 . 20 January 2017 . Government of South Australia.
6. 21 October 1980. 8 April 2019.