Editing Nattai National Park (section)

==History==
The area now known as Nattai National Park has had a limited impact from Europeans. Several early expeditions attempting to cross the [[Blue Mountains (New South Wales)|Blue Mountains]] passed through the area at the end of the 18th century, and settlers settled in the lower Nattai and Burragorang Valleys in 1827.<ref name=wright/> Early conservationists [[Myles and Milo Dunphy|Myles Dunphy]] and Herb Gallop went on bushwalks in the region from 1912 onward. An area of note was a forest of ''[[Eucalyptus saligna]],'' commonly referred to as Sydney blue gum around Blue Gum Creek which was held in high regard.{{Citation needed|date=June 2024}}

Dunphy lobbied for the stand to be preserved upon becoming aware of plans to log the area but was unsuccessful, and the area was logged in the 1920s and 30s. Dunphy put forward a plan for a Greater Blue Mountains National Park, which incorporated what is now Nattai National Park in the southeast in 1932. The creation of [[Warragamba Dam]] in 1960 limited access for the development of land upstream, but it was not until 1991 that plans for permanent protection and national park status looked to become realized.<ref name="wright">{{cite book|last=Wright|first=Peter|title=National Parks of Southern NSW|publisher=Bridge Printery|location=Rosebery, NSW|year=1996|isbn=0-9587590-1-4|pages=30–31}}</ref>