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Table of Contents:

• Bushcare Information
• FoG Third Sunday BBQs
• Reflections on the Grassland
• Large Urban Park Award
• Changing Places at Glenthorne
• COOTS Plant Sale – Sunday 2nd November from 12.00 noon.
• What's with the Plastic Sheets?
• Tours of Glenthorne
• One Million Turtles
• Friends of Kauwi-marnirla
• Transformation of the River Torrens
• Acknowledgement of Country

Glenthorne is an ideal place to research nature.

"Research is formulised curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose" - Zora Neale Hurston

Did you miss a Newsletter? Catch up on all our previous eNewsletters on this webpage https://www.friendsofglenthorne.org.au/news-letter/

As usual for Bush Care Days, we meet at Carpark One behind the Shearing Shed. (To get there, follow the Park Road down from the Ranger’s Station, then turn right into Carpark 1.)

If you need any help finding us, then please ring one of the following.

Martin:  0403 804 306
Alan:     0411 595 910
Bob:     0419 408 851

Bushcare Events at Glenthorne NP-IY:

• Each Wednesday - 9am to noon.
• 1st  & 2nd Saturday 10-4pm
  3rd Sunday 10-4pm

At RDA (Riding for Disabled) 

• 4th Saturday:   9-12pm  (RDA Front Garden) Volunteers from the Riding For Disabled will be joining us for these Bush Care days at RDA.

Always be mindful of the forecast weather and our Hot Weather Policy.  If the BOM forecasted temperature is 34 degrees or higher, the Bushcare Day is cancelled. See the BOM O'Halloran Hill Forecast Information

If you are unwell, please do the right thing and stay at home.

Bushcare Mailing List

If you want to receive irregular Bushcare Notifications, subscribe to our BushCarers E-Mailing List. To do this, just send an email to BushCarers-Join@FriendsOfGlenthorne.org.au

Bushcare: It’s not Rocket Science, it’s much more difficult than that.

Each month, on "The Third Sunday", the Friends of Glenthorne are hosting a BBQ.

We will start BushCare as normal, at 10am, and then break for lunch to host a BBQ.  Bring your family, invite your friends, or invite one of the Park Users to join us for a bit of social interaction.

GrassLand BushCare

Also, on the Third Sunday of each month, recent doctorate graduate of Adelaide Uni, Max, will continue BushCare on his Glenthorne research area, the Community Grassland. This Grassland BushCare will also start at 10am.

There is much to learn about Grasslands, and Max is willing to share his knowledge.

See the Glenthorne Grassland Website at: https://www.glenthornegrassland.com.

Jason Irving, from the Dept. of Water, attended the Award ceramony at the World Urban Parks 2025 WUP@10 International Awards Program in Istanbul, Türkiye on October 10.  

Glenthorne National Park received a Large Urban Park Award for the Asia Pacific region.  

Read the full article at this link: WUP@10

So, was the Glenthorne Grassland Project a Success?

Max, Our Adelaide Uni PhD student, who authored this project, has had time to reflect on what this project means. He's completing the writing of his PhD Dissertation, and has written a much shorter precis about his Grassland project.

You can read that on his Grassland Website, at: https://www.glenthornegrassland.com/resources/reflection

It is well worth the read.

You may have noticed a special Loo at Glenthorne, near CarPark 2. This is a "Changing Places" facility, that enables individuals with high support needs to fully participate in community life.

You can read more about this at: https://www.modusaustralia.com.au/projects/changing-places-at-glenthorne-national-park

On each First Sunday of the Month, the Australian Plant Society - COOTS(*) group host a Plant Sale at their Clubrooms in Goodwood.

Where: 1 Minute Walk North from the Goodwood Railway Station.  21a Richards Tce. Goodwood. (East/Hills Side)

When: This Sunday, from 12 noon to 3.00pm.

There will be knowledgeable environmentalists attending so if you have any questions about native plants, birds, insects and other such matters, please come along and have a chat with the COOTS team.

The Glenthorne History book will also be on sale for just $35. Cash and credit card facilities available.

* COOTS = Conservation Of Our Threatened Species.

On your recent visit to Glenthorne, have you noticed plastic sheets that have appeared among the weeds?

As an extension to the Grassland Project, the very large, very cumbersome plastic polarisation sheets that were used to prepare the ground (and kill the weed seeds), have been cut up, and re-positions to Solarise other smaller areas, ahead of plantings in the near future.

If you happen to see that the wind has helped one of these plastic sheets to "escape" from its tie-down, if you are able, please stretch it out again, and re-position it's weights, so that the ground preparation can continue until the end of summer/autumn.  Your help will be greatly appreciated.

David Speirs is still offering Tours of Glenthorne, covering the Past, Present, and Future of the Park.

David would love to see you.

To register for a tour, either:

• Click this link , or
• Point your phone camera to the QR Code below, and then go to the Webpage that the QR code identifies.

David Speirs is still offering Tours of Glenthorne, covering the Past, Present, and Future of the Park.

David would love to see you.

To register for a tour, either:

• Click this link , or
• Point your phone camera to the QR Code below, and then go to the Webpage that the QR code identifies.

You may not know that the large lake in Glenthorne has a healthy population of Long Neck Turtles.

When this lake was surveyed recently, to see if it may be suitable to host a rescue-population of rare and endangered  native fish, 21 turtles were caught and released.  No fish were caught at all.

But did you know that, nationally, native Australian Turtles have drastically declined in number?  To learn more of the risks and challenges of reversing this trent, see https://1millionturtles.com.

November is "Turtle Month", the time of the year when about half the Turtle population leave the water, climb up-hill, and lay a nest of eggs.  Many of the hatchlings are predated, or killed, before hand, never making it to the water.

If you want, you can Download the TurtleSAT app, and start reporting your turtle sightings. Sightings may include turtles moving along roads, found basking at different water bodies or found dead (potentially run over by motor vehicles).

Are you interested in helping out along the Field River?  Below is the contents of an email sent out by Restoration Ecologist Angus Droogan-Turniski.  Send an email to Angus if you want to received further communications about this group and their activities.  His email address is: Angus.Droogan-Turniski@sa.gov.au

🎒 What to Bring

• A hat
• Drinking water
• Some snacks (We’ll break for morning tea halfway through the session)

🧤 What’s Provided

• Gloves, safety glasses, and tools
• A first aid kit, NPWS/Green Adelaide staff will be the designated first aid officers
• All relevant safety documents

📝 Sign-In & Safety

• All attendees must sign in on arrival
• A brief safety induction will take place before we begin

When you think of Adelaide's River Torrens / Karrawirra Pari, do you picture a thriving, healthy ecosystem - or do you recall the days of it struggling after decades of pollution and land clearing?

If you missed the Webinare on 8th October, then visit the Green Adelaide YouTube Channel webpage, to view this, or other interesting videos.

The Friends of Glenthorne acknowledge that Glenthorne National Park - Ityamaiitpinna Yarta is part of the traditional lands of the Kaurna people and we respect them and appreciate their innate and spiritual connection with the land and waters of Glenthorne.

We aspire to work alongside them in taking care of this land and community to restore Glenthorne to be once again, a healthy native habitat.