1. Koomba Park 9. Old Joes Creek 14. Wicks Reserve & Wicks 20. Sundew Reserve 25. Norvel Reserve 33. Redcourt Reserve (Melway Ref. 63 C7) PV Retarding Basin Reserve East (Melway Ref. 65 J8) (Melway Ref. 64 K8) KCC (Melway Ref. 64 G12) KCC (Melway Ref. 72 F6) KCC Redcourt Reserve is a small (Melway Ref. 65 A6) MW & KCC KCC 26. Clyde Reserve reserve located off Berrabri Located off Mountain Old Joes Creek Retarding Basin Wicks Reserve is an open space 21. Penrith Reserve features Old Joes Creek, a (Melway Ref. 73 F2) KCC Drive, Wantirna South. It Highway, Wantirna, Koomba forest area at the base of the (Melway Ref. 64 H8) KCC retarding basin and remnant features a diverse range of Park features walking paths . The reserve 27. Lakewood Nature bushland vegetation. This 22.Roselyn Crescent Reserve wildflowers that may be seen through wetlands around is ideal for bushwalking and Reserve (Melway Ref. 73 C2) reserve and Wicks Reserve in in Spring. These include Golden man–made Koomba Lake. (Melway Ref. 64 D10) KCC The Basin are two sites in Knox viewing many plants indigenous KCC & MW Billy Buttons, Milkmaids and This open woodland reserve Located on Lakewood Drive, that provide habitat for the to Knox. Of particular interest Chocolate Lilies. 2. Winton Wetlands located in Roselyn Crescent, Knoxfield, Lakewood Nature threatened Sword-grass Brown is Gahnia sieberiana, which (Melway Ref. 63 F3) MW Boronia, is notable for its wild Reserve consists of open space, Butterfly. The Knox Environment provides essential habitat for 34. Linnel Court Reserve Winton Wetlands are located flower display each spring. Bush significant bushland and a Society is linking the two the threatened Sword-grass (Melway Ref. 81 H2) KCC along peas and orchids are found under retarding basin. This reserve reserves by creating a vegetated Brown Butterfly. An oak tree of between Boronia and Wantirna the canopy line of the eucalypt is completely surrounded by wildlife corridor. historical significance is located Roads, Wantirna. The Reserve is trees. residential development and 35. Delta Court Reserve Attached to this retarding basin in nearby Sheffield Road. It is regionally significant, providing forms a wildlife sanctuary for (Melway Ref. 81 J3) KCC is the Lucas Close Bushland believed that the tree was planted habitat for Latham’s Snipe, 23. Wadhurst Drive Reserve many water birds and possums. which is a migratory bird which is a small pocket of by William Chandler, one of the (Melway Ref. 64 C11) KCC 36. Starlight Reserve protected under the Japan remnant vegetation. Hova, first Councillors in the district, in 28. Egan Lee Reserve (Melway Ref. 81 G5) KCC Migratory Bird Flat Pea, Common Heath and 1875. The tree is one of the finest (Melway Ref. 73 A3) KCC Starlight Reserve is located Agreement, Yellow–billed Native Fuchsia all take turns to examples of the early English oak Egan Lee Reserve is approximately off Canter Street in Rowville. Spoonbills and many frogs. display their coloured flowers in Australia. four acres of open woodland It contains a range of Winton Wetlands also contain at throughout the seasons. located off Wallace Road, Knox- indigenous vegetation, which least two trees used in the past field. Features of this reserve has regenerated after Knox City to make Aboriginal canoes. 10. Lucas Close include grassland species such Council altered the mowing (Melway Ref. 65 B5) KCC as sedges and tussock grass. regime for the reserve. 3. Yarrabing Wetlands Many orchids also feature in this This reserve has an interesting Knox reserve flowering in spring. history as part of the land was (Melway Ref. 63 F3) KCC Yarrabing Wetlands is located used as a military camp in World off Magnolia Street in Wantirna. War 2. The reserve also formed Named after an aboriginal part of the first Victorian word meaning “white gum”, the tobacco farm in the 1860s. reserve contains a large number Bushland Reserves of remnant Manna Gums, 37. Tirhatuan Wetlands which support local wildlife. Conservation Reserve Wetland development in 2000 (Melway Ref. 81 F6) MW has enriched the wildlife and 8 Tirhatuan Wetlands Conservation improved the water quality. 3 13 Reserve is located off Police 2 7 11 Road in Rowville and contains 4. Stringybark Reserve 5 12 remnant wetland species. This (Melway Ref. 63 F6) KCC reserve also provides important This reserve located at the habitat for the Dwarf Galaxia fish

RD RD corner of and 4 BORONIA 9/10 which is protected under the Petalnina Drive, Wantirna, was 21 16 Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act. RD formed in the late 1990’s as part 6 RD RD 1 ALBERT 14 of a housing subdivision. The 20 17 38. Dandenong Police reserve contains some significant FOREST 15 Paddocks (Melway Ref. 81 J8) BURWOOD grasslands and excellent examples RD 22 STUD 18 GCDC of the rare Red Stringybark 19 Located on the southern (Eucalyptus macrorhyncha). 23

30 DORSET boundary of Knox, this open LEWIS 24 Dandenong 5. Bateman St Bushland space reserve was home to 29 Ranges the Native Police Tracker Corps (Melway Ref. 63 F4) STREET RD 25 between 1849 and 1853. HWY National Park KCC & VicRoads Police Paddocks is undergoing Bateman Street bushland 31 27 26 extensive revegetation and a is located on the proposed 32 43 variety of active and passive Healesville Freeway reservation 28 recreation options are being in Wantirna. This site is RD

SCORESBY developed, which will eventually considered to be one of the create a significant regional largest and richest areas of CATHIES park. Access is via Brady Road, fairly intact Valley Heathy Forest 33 Endeavour Hills. in the region. GULLY RD 39. Churchill National Park Key Responsible 42 (Melway Ref. 82 C9) PV

LYSTER Authorities: LA This National Park contains KELLETTS NAPOLEON KCC Knox City Council 9298 8000 HWY considerable bird, plant and RD 29. Timmothy Drive KELLETTS RD animal life unique to the area. FIELD PV Parks 131 963 Bushland The park’s entrance is located CGDC City of Greater 9239 5100 (Melway Ref. 63 G12) KCC off Churchill Park Drive, Rowville Dandenong Council This reserve is located adjacent and is open from 8.30am to to Blind Creek and contains a sunset all year round. MV Melbourne Water 9703 3300 TAYLORS 41 WELLINGTON RDRD 34 VALLEY 35 RD Swamp Gum Forest. HWY WELLINGTON 40. Whitecliff Reserve 30. Flamingo Reserve 6. W.G. Morris Reserve (Melway Ref. 82 A7) KCC (Melway Ref. 63 F11) KCC (Melway Ref. 63 G7) KCC BERGINS RD Flamingo Reserve is located 41. Pinehill Reserve W.G. Morris Reserve is located 11. Blamey 36 off Flamingo Drive, Wantirna (Melway Ref. 82 D1) KCC in Harold Street, Wantirna. DANDENONG South and contains an excellent This 6 acre reserve contains Reserve Lysterfield example of remnant bushland. many significant plant species (Melway Ref. 65 A4) KCC 37 40 42. Gilmour Park Lake Park There is an array of ground including Nodding Greenhood This small reserve is (Melway Ref. 74 F8) KCC & MW flora species including Prickly and Tall Greenhood Orchids located on the steep, western Gilmour Park’s 6.7 hectares 38 Moses, Blue Pincushions and and is important habitat for slope of the ridge between 39 are quite unique in Knox as during winter, an assortment native wildlife. The local high Dorest and Army Roads in they contain a natural, of native lilies. school uses the reserve for Boronia. The reserve supports forested creek; a lake and environmental education. excellent botanical diversity and 31. Nortons Park wetland setting with a woodland is dominated by Red Box trees (Melway Ref. 71 K2) PV backdrop; open grassland; 7. Mansons Reserve which are rare in Knox. 15. Bayview Crescent Reserve and a cricket oval. Gilmour (Melway Ref. 63 J3) KCC (Melway Ref. 65 F9) KCC Park is a refuge for many 12. Millers Reserve Located in Nortons Lane, This open space reserve plants and animals that have Wantirna South, Nortons contains one of the last wetland (Melway Ref. 65 E5) KCC 16. George Grumont Reserve been threatened by urban Park is ideal for family picnics billabongs in Knox. A 60 metre (Melway Ref. 65 F7) KCC development. It forms an 13. Liverpool and pleasant walks through boardwalk was constructed in important link with other Retarding Basin rural/bushland reserves. 1996, providing close–up views 17. Mortiboy Reserve refuge habitats around (Melway Ref. 65 G5) The park is accessible via the of wildlife in the reserve. MW 24. Blind Creek Billabong Ferntree Gully National Park. Liverpool Retarding Basin is (Melway Ref. 65 F8) KCC Knox Cycleway. Mansons Reserve is linked to the (Melway Ref. 64 H11) KCC Knox Cycleway and is situated in located on Liverpool Road, The This reserve runs adjacent to 43. Dandenong Ranges Basin. It includes two lakes and 18. Wirrianda Reserve 32. Llewellyn Reserve Selkirk Avenue, Wantirna. (Melway Ref. 65 D10) Blind Creek in Ferntree Gully National Park (Mel Ref. 74 H5) seasonal wetlands and is one of and can be accessed from (Melway Ref. 72 E3) KCC Knox’s largest and most diverse Located off Cathies Lane, PV 8. Bayswater Park 19. Koolunga Native Reserve Springfield Rd, Boronia. areas of intact indigenous Wantirna South, Llewellyn Dandenong Ranges National (Melway Ref. 64 F3) KCC Two vegetation communities vegetation. The reserve’s patch (Melway Ref. 65 C11) KCC Reserve sits on a reclaimed Park is located off the Mount are present - a seasonal wetland of swamp scrub is undoubtedly Koolunga Native Reserve is located brickworks site and includes Dandenong Tourist Road, Upper Located in the heart of suburbia one of the richest and most on Forest Road, Ferntree Gully. (the billabong) and forest playing fields constructed on Ferntree Gully. It is a large on the corner of Bayswater Rd ecologically healthy in the It is a 9 hectare reserve that was dominated by Swamp Gum clay fill. The perimeter of the eucalypt forest (Ferntree Gully, and Mountain Hwy in Bayswater. Melbourne region. Nine plant purchased from Chandler’s Daffodil and Silver-leafed Stringybark. reserve, and particularly the Doongalla and Sherbrooke) It is a very popular reserve for species of regional significance Farm in 1968 and named after an This reserve contains 16 plant north–east corner, retains native that features waterfalls and picnics and nature walks due to are found in this reserve, as is aboriginal word meaning ‘banks of species that are regionally or vegetation, including a number fern gullies. It is very popular significant remnant vegetation. the threatened Swamp Skink. a stream’. locally significant to Knox. of significant species. for picnics, walks and drives.

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