Assessment of land use options for the Tallaringa Block was made in 1988. It included photopoint installation for land system mapping and to monitor grazing impact. Biological survey was also undertaken in 1988 and again in 1993. A few photopoints were established in the early stage of rangeland monitoring in South Australia. Photopoints were placed in many of the Park's plant communities, which have collectively enabled the monitoring of these plant communities to evaluate trends in structure and composition as well as fire impacts. The survey's objective was to carry out a vegetation survey as part of an assessment of the conservation value versus potential pastoral value of this large block of Crown Land. This resulted in the proclamation of the area as Tallaringa Conservation Park. The Tallaringa Survey is part of the Biological Survey of South Australia Program which is a series of systematic surveys conducted across the state between 1971 and the present with the broad aim of providing a baseline inventory of South Australia's flora and fauna biodiversity.