Gibbs Road Bushland, Forrestdale (Bush Forever Site 344) covers a number of Banksia woodland and Melaleuca paperbark dampland areas either side of Gibbs Road and Taylor Road. The areas are managed by both the City of Armadale and Parks & Wildlife Service as part of the Jandakot Regional Park. The Reserve, which is vested in the City of Armadale, is located in a pristine 12.5ha Banksia woodland in Forrestdale and forms part of the Jandakot Regional Park. The Reserve is an environmentally sensitive area and provides an important food source for species of threatened and endangered Black Cockatoos.
They are floristically diverse and contain many areas of native vegetation that have received little disturbance.
Car parking for access to some of the bushland is located at:
• Corner of Gibbs Road and Taylor Road, Forrestdale. Access gates nearby on Taylor Road,
• Gibbs Road about 800 m from Taylor Road there is an access gate.
It also provides access to the adjacent Denis de Young Reserve, Banjup (City of Cockburn).
There are well defined fire access/management tracks that are suitable for easy bushwalking, although some can be through soft sand in parts.
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