PLUNKETT Conservation Park, located between Cedar Creek and Logan Village, is one of Logan’s best kept secrets.
Some 25 people \signed on to join parks and wildlife officers for a booked out guided spring wildflower walk today, Monday, September 3. Most were members of groups like Land for Wildlife and Friends of Plunkett.
Division councillor Laurie Koranski joined the walkers.
”The Plunkett Conservation Park is one of Logan’s best kept secrets and it is right here on our doorstep,” she said.
“Today we took in stunning views from Wickham Peak and traversed beautiful eucalypt forest and sandstone outcrops.
‘I can’t think of a better way to celebrate spring than with a casual troll through Plunkett taking in our beautiful areas of flora and fauna.”
Plunkett Conservation Park and Wickham Timber Reserve is located off Quinzeh-Creek and Flesser roads between Cedar Creek and Logan Village.
It is mainly open eucalypt forest, home to unique flora combinations and contains a wide diversity of plants and wildlife that includes koala, swamp wallabies, Eastern grey kangaroos and gliders.
The park was one of the historic Corbould blocks donated by the late Harold Edward ‘Ted’ Corbould in 1983 and set aside for conservation before it was transferred to the Queensland Government and gazetted as a conservation park in 1994.
Views from Wickham Peak include an impressive view of Yarrabilba as most never get to see it and views north towards Brisbane.
Plants that can be found on site include endangered and threatened plants that include curly beardheath, swamp tea-tree Melaleuca, an orchid called Pterostylis and Plunkett mallee.
The park is home to birds that include the scarlet, yellow-faced, white-throated and fuscous honeyeaters.
