RESOURCES

LINKS AND REFERENCES

• Blackwood Forest Recreation Park Management Plan (2005), Department for Environment and Heritage.
  www.environment.sa.gov.au/parks/pdfs/PARKS_PDFS_BLACKWOOD_FOREST_MP
• Friends of Parks Incorporated
  www.communitywebs.org/FriendsofParks
• Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources
  www.environment.sa.gov.au
• For a good background on the horticultural history of the park:
  Quinn, G. (1935) ‘The State Experiment Orchard, Coromandel Valley, Near Blackwood, South Australia’.
  Journal of Agriculture March 15, 972-987.
• For a good background on the history of olive growing, in particular the trees at Blackwood Forest:
• Hill C. (2000) ‘Research and Development in the History of Olive Horticulture in SA’
  digital.library.adelaide.edu.au/dspace/bitstream/2440/36580/1/R_D_olive_industry.pdf
• For historic photos of Blackwood Experimental Orchard:
  www.pir.sa.gov.au/aghistory
  – then select Photo Database Search
• For information on our fund raising campaign to restore The Manager’s Office:
• https://chuffed.org/project/friends-of-blackwood-forest-recreation-park–managers-office-restoration
• Friends 10 Year Plan:
• Friends of the Blackwood Forest Recreation Park

• Manager’s Office has been restored and in good condition a focal point, providing a presence in the Park
  and for the friends of Blackwood Forest to use: for storage, display, working bees, open days and history talks.
  Our Vision 

  •   Pine forest: will be partially cleared and replaced with eucalypts/native
  •   Broad acres: retain, clear weeds/ferals and include mosaic plantings
  •   Wildlife: there will be a wider diversity
  •   Creek: will be healthier
  •   Park: will be easy to manage: new plantings will be done in ways that make it easy to slashthe grass around and in amongst them
  •   Friends Group: will have grown its membership: new blood, new ideas, more funds; greater engagement
  •   Ensure: that the Vision does not exceed capacity to achieve and maintain it
  •     We have the FOP grant now all spent of $15,000 where we planted over 1,000 plants
  •     We are one third of the way of our Green Adelaide Grant
  •     We have replanted the Avenue of trees that were vandalised in January 2026