History of Blue Mountains Reserves

 

Saving of Blue Gum - and the conservation campaigns it sparked

 

BMWHA - National Park History of Dedication - Map showing dates for each Park

 

GBMWHA - Date of Inscription and the story of the 100 eucalyptus species

Prompted the start of the National Parks movement in Australia
Dunphy primitive areas map

The bushwalker who pushed hardest for the national parks was Myles Dunphy.

His original vision for a huge Blue Mountains national park eventually came to pass
in the form of the Greater Blue Mountains
World Heritage Area, which contains seven national parks and embraces a million hectares.