Bulburin National Park, National park in Queensland, Australia
Bulburin National Park covers 326 square kilometres between the Boyne and Kolan river catchments, 120 km south of Gladstone and 75 km north-east of Monto. More than half its area is subtropical rainforest and dense dry forest with young hoop pines, the largest remaining rainforest area in central Queensland. The rest is open eucalypt forest and woodland, with New England blackbutt and lemon-scented gum on the western slopes.
Bulburin National Park was gazetted on 10 August 2006, covering 326 square kilometres of central Queensland. Its protection secured the largest remaining patch of subtropical rainforest in the region, together with the only known stand of the Bulburin nut tree (Macadamia jansenii), of which about 40 specimens survive.
The park's name comes from Bulburin, the old forestry camp reached after about 16 km along Bulburin Forest Road from Builyan. Camping is permitted across most of the park, but the only visitor facility is a picnic area near that former timber-getters' camp; there are no marked walking tracks.
Access is from Builyan via Bulburin Forest Road; after about 16 km you reach an old timber-cutters' camp. Beyond it, the loop road through the park and Dawes Range Road to the Bruce Highway require a four-wheel drive. Camping is allowed in most of the park, but the only visitor facility is a picnic area near the camp, and there are no marked walking tracks.
The only known population of Macadamia jansenii, the Bulburin nut tree, grows inside the park, with about 40 individuals left. The species was named after the botanist who collected it, and its survival depends on this single site.
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