Successful Grant Applications
The committee is really excited that the Friends of Black Hill and Morialta have been successful with two grant applications this year.
This funding has been through the Friends of Parks and Nature grant program. The FOPN grant program was created to recognise the significant work undertaken by volunteer groups supporting South Australia’s national parks and conservation programs.
The two grants we have been successful with are:
- “Morialta Conservation Park priority woody weed control” and
- "Watsonia and other high priority weed control in Horsnell Gully Conservation Park”
These grants will allow us to engage contractors to extend the area of work on olive and other woody weeds from Olive Hill project site back towards Hogans Track. This area is home to Eucalyptus porosa which is under threat due to stress caused be a drying climate and competition from woody weeds, including olives. Already volunteers have been working on controlling the olives from Morialta Falls Road, and the improved health of the Eucalyptus is there for all to see. In Horsnell Gully Conservation Park we will be able do follow up from previous years to further protect the heathland at the back of the park where volunteers can't reach, which is habitat for the endangered Chestnut-rumped Heathwren.