Editing Fitzgerald River National Park (section)

==Description==
The park includes the Barren Mountains ([[East Mount Barren|East]], Middle, and [[West Mount Barren]]), the Eyre Range and the [[Fitzgerald River (Western Australia)|Fitzgerald River]] as well as incorporating the [[Fitzgerald Biosphere]]. There are 62 plant species which are unique to the {{convert|329882|ha}} park and a further 48 are rarely found elsewhere.

Recording almost 40,000 visitors in 2008, the park received $20 million in funding from the federal government's economic stimulus plan with the state government contributing an additional $20 million. The investment is to be used to redevelop and seal {{convert|80|km|abbr=on}} of roads within the park, construct a walking trail from [[Bremer Bay, Western Australia|Bremer Bay]] to [[Hopetoun, Western Australia|Hopetoun]], and upgrade existing recreational facilities.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.minister.infrastructure.gov.au/aa/releases/2009/December/aa552_2009.htm|title=Media Release – $20 Million Investment in Fitzgerald River National Park|year=2009|access-date=21 May 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110220002755/http://www.minister.infrastructure.gov.au/aa/releases/2009/December/aa552_2009.htm|archive-date=20 February 2011}}</ref>

Point Ann is one of the two places (the other is [[Head of the Bight]]) along Australia's coast where [[southern right whale]]s come to calve during their winter migration.
Within the National Park is the Quaalup Homestead Wilderness Retreat (now run as a hotel) that was built in 1858 by the Wellstead Family. In 1890, the [[John Hassell (settler)|Hassell family]] took over the [[pastoral lease]] and the homestead.
The park can be accessed from the western side via [[Bremer Bay]], or from the eastern side via [[Hopetoun, Western Australia|Hopetoun]]. The central area of the park is only accessible with a four-wheel-drive vehicle or on foot.
Many of the peaks in the park are off limits to climbers to prevent the spread of dieback or [[root rot]] from ''[[Phytophthora cinnamomi]]''.

The northwest precinct of the park is referred to as ''Twertup'', a name applied to several plants and features of the landscape. The Twertup Field Studies Centre, so named, previously occupied a former residence known as Twertup Cottage until the spongolite construction was destroyed by fire. Twertup is given in formal names associated with the area, for the watercourse Twertup Creek, a road, and several plant taxa, the Twertup mallee ''[[Eucalyptus arborella]]'', Twertup feather-flower ''[[Verticordia crebra]]'', and ''Leucopogon'' sp. Twertup for an unknown species described by [[K.R. Newbey]]<!-- Kenneth Newbey --> that was found in the area.<ref name="Bulletin47-4">{{cite web |title=Bulletin 47-4 Twertup |url=https://www.gsdc.wa.gov.au/information/gsdc-bulletin/bulletin-47-4-twertup/ |website=gsdc.wa.gov.au |publisher=Great Southern Development Commissionwa.gov.au}}</ref><ref name="nrm">{{cite web |title=Projects : NRM WA. 15027: Twertup Field Studies Centre: utilities, cooking area and nature walks |url=http://www.nrm.wa.gov.au/projects/15027.aspx |website=nrm.wa.gov.au |publisher=wa.gov.au}}</ref><ref>{{FloraBase|id=19516}}</ref> The nineteenth century author [[Ethel Hassell]], who lived nearby at [[Jerramungup]] station, gives a chapter with this title. A warning that the young woman should avoid staying in the area, while heeded, was mysterious about the actual threat. This was later explained by Hassel's Nyungar friend, Gimbuck, who now advised her to sleep with two fires and away from water because of the reputation of groups of 'wild dogs' ([[dingo]]s) in the area; this practical concern was accompanied by the ancestral story of their abundance.<ref name="Izett2014">{{cite web|last=Izett|first=Erica Kaye|date=2014|url=https://research-repository.uwa.edu.au/en/publications/breaking-new-ground-early-australian-ethnography-in-colonial-wome|title=Breaking new ground: early Australian ethnography in colonial women's writing|publisher=[[University of Western Australia]] (PhD thesis)|access-date=9 November 2018}}</ref>

In February 2023, a [[2023 Coulson Aviation crash|Coulson Aviation]] [[Boeing 737-300]] crashed while fighting fires in the national park; both pilots survived the crash.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-02-07 |title=2 pilots walk away from Boeing 737 tanker crash in Australia |url=https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/2-pilots-walk-away-from-boeing-737-tanker-crash-in-australia/ |access-date=2023-02-08 |website=The Seattle Times}}</ref>