[1] Pioneer farming families kept sheep, which were confined in brush yards overnight and protected by shepherds living in simple slab huts.

[1] In 1971, using a $55,000 donation from the Forest Park Foundation of Peoria, the Chicago Zoological Society purchased the land as a conservation reserve for the southern-hairy nosed wombat (Lasiorhinus latifrons).

[3] Brookfield Conservation Park comprises three main habitat types: open mallee Eucalyptus; arid woodland including sugarwood (Myoporum platycarpum) and dryland tea-tree (Melaleuca lanceolata); and arid shrubland including bluebush (Maireana spp).

[4] Other notable birds include emus, ground cuckoo-shrikes, Australian owlet-nightjars, malleefowl, galah, Australian ringneck, crested bellbird, mulga parrot, black-eared cuckoo, Gilbert's whistler, elegant parrot, red-backed kingfisher, Hooded robin, and Bush stone curlew.

Reptiles species that live in the park include the sand goanna and the eastern brown snake.