Editing Onkaparinga River National Park (section)

==History==
Most of the land now dedicated to the national park was purchased in the period 1973 to 1977 by a former [[Government of South Australia|SA government]] agency, the State Planning Authority.  The purpose of the land acquisition which included land along the full length of Onkaparinga River was threefold.  Firstly, it was ‘to provide open space for recreational purposes’, secondly, ‘to preserve the natural character of the landscape, including the native flora and fauna’ and thirdly, ‘to function as a buffer between areas of urban and rural land.’  In 1982, the majority of the land was transferred to the then [[Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources (South Australia)|Department for Environment and Heritage]] which established the [[Onkaparinga River Recreation Park]] in 1985.  In 1993, all of the land east of Main South Road (known as the gorge section’) was removed from the recreation park and constituted as the Onkaparinga River National Park.<ref name="SAGG-1993"/>  For managerial and administrative purposes, the recreation park and the national park are known collectively as the ‘Onkaparinga River Reserve’.<ref name=MPpage5>{{cite web|title=Management Plan - Onkaparinga River Reserve|url=http://www.environment.sa.gov.au/files/c3a54fec-aa3a-4b63-9b6d-9e4f00b1d89c/PARKS_PDFS_ONKAPARINGA_MP.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110314182253/http://www.environment.sa.gov.au/files/c3a54fec-aa3a-4b63-9b6d-9e4f00b1d89c/PARKS_PDFS_ONKAPARINGA_MP.pdf |archive-date=2011-03-14 |url-status=live|publisher=Department of Environment and Heritage|access-date=3 April 2014|pages=5|year=2004}}</ref>