The Landcare Centre
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In 2014 the Landcare Centre on Hartley Road was established.
A lease from Council on a section of public land
meant that a shed and greenhouse could be built.
Further
improvements to the land include planting native gardens,
restoration of the creek and waterhole and educational signage.
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The centre is now a community space which is regularly being utilised by
local residents. |
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Kelso Creek Pond
For many centuries this attractive pool has been a natural habitat for a
wide variety of birds, small
water creatures and native animals. It would certainly have been known to the
Wangerriburra
people, the original custodians of this area.
The pool is fed from a spring just to the south, which rises from one of the
mountain’s many underground aquifers. This pond is the source of Kelso Creek, which flows north
to meet the larger
Cedar Creek, which in turn joins the Logan and Albert Rivers that discharge into
Moreton Bay.
The creek is named after the 1880s selector, Samuel Kelso, whose land portion
101 stretched northward from the adjacent Hartley Road. The land containing the pool and the
area now occupied
by Tamborine Mountain’s Sports Fields was selected, also in the 1880s, by John
Price, being portion
107 of 160 acres. It was later owned by the Hartley family, after whom the
adjacent street wasnamed. After being owned by a succession of farmers, it was purchased in 1949 by
the Marist
Brothers Order for a school farm. In recent years the area was acquired by the
Scenic Rim Regional Council for a Sports Complex.
Landcare Centre Native Plant List
If you are unable to view the plant
list, you can download the full PDF
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