The Boundary Road Reserve has been a reserve since 1997 and is home to 350 plant species, 150 animals and 120 birds.

The reserve's Landcare group members work very hard to maintain the large area, but chairman of the group Roger Hargraves said they need some additions to help with their working bees.

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"I'm nearly 70 and I'm one of the younger ones on the committee," he said.

"We've done about 14,000 plantings of trees, scrubs, grasses to try and improve it [but] it's more than maintaining it, it really needs to be rehabilitated.

"We'd love to have young people come and talk to us and we've had a few lately, but we could probably do with another dozen or two."

As its name suggests, the reserve is off Boundary Road and is open to anyone for recreational purposes.

There are walking tracks for people to follow either on foot or by pushbike.

People are allowed to bring their dogs along provided they remain on a leash.

"By law they have to be on leads. That becomes particularly important because dogs off their leads can be a threat to everything else there," Mr Hargraves said.

According to the track counter (that was unfortunately stolen recently), the reserve was seeing an average of 8000 visitors a year, with COVID causing a surge in numbers.

The group says there's only about five per cent of pre-colonial land remaining in eastern Australia.

If there are people who would like to help maintain a little bit of history, the Boundary Road Reserve Landcare group would be more than grateful.

Mr Hargraves encourages people to use the reserve and hopes the more people who are enjoying and respecting the land, the fewer people will be doing the wrong thing.

"It's entirely free, it's entirely accessible, we just want people to realise that they've got to look after it," he said.

"If anybody wants to come and help us look after it, that would be wonderful."