Editing Lamington National Park (section)

==History==
For at least 6,000 years, [[Indigenous Australians|Aboriginal people]] lived in and visited these mountains.<ref name="lackner">{{Cite book|last=Lackner |first=Thomas |year=1989 |title=Discovering Binna Burra on foot |publisher=Envirobook |isbn=0-85881-088-3 |pages=5–13 }}</ref> The Wangerriburras and Nerangballum tribes claimed home to the plateau territory.<ref name="seeing"/> Bushrangers Cave, which is close to Mount Hobwee and is {{convert|60|m|ft}} long, was once an aboriginal camp.<ref name="naq"/> This site shows Aboriginal occupation going back 10,000 years.<ref name="naq"/>

Captain [[Patrick Logan]] and [[Allan Cunningham (botanist)|Allan Cunningham]] were the first European explorers in the area.  The timber cutters soon followed, including the Lahey family who owned one of Queensland's largest [[timber mill]]s at the time.<ref name="discover">{{Cite book|title=Discover Australia's National Parks |last=Hema Maps |year=1997 |publisher=[[Random House]] Australia |location=Milsons Point, New South Wales |isbn=1-875992-47-2 |pages=182–183 }}</ref> In 1863 a survey of the Queensland/New South Wales border was conducted.  The task was carried out by Francis Edward Roberts and Isaiah Rowland, both surveyors, who had to define the border along the highest points in dense rainforest where there were very few clear [[Sightline|lines of sight]].<ref name="naq"/>
[[File:BinnaBurra1.JPG|thumb|right|Exposed volcanic rocks, 2005.]]
[[Robert Martin Collins (Queensland politician)|Robert Collins]] campaigned heavily for the protection of the area from logging from the 1890s.<ref name="discover" /> Collins entered [[Legislative Assembly of Queensland|state parliament]] and saw a bill passed that preserved state forests and national parks but he died before the McPherson Range was protected.<ref name="xqnp">{{Cite book|title=Explore Queensland's National Parks |year=2008 |publisher=Explore Australia Publishing |location=Prahran, Victoria |isbn=978-1-74117-245-4 |pages=30–33 }}</ref> Later it was another local, [[Romeo Lahey]] who recognised the value of preserving the forests.  He campaigned to make it one of the first [[protected area]]s in Queensland.<ref name="heritage">{{Cite book|title=Heritage Trails of the Great South East |last=Queensland Environmental Protection Agency |year=2000 |publisher=State of Queensland |isbn=0-7345-1008-X |page=18 }}</ref> The O’Reilly family established a guesthouse near the park in 1926, now named [[O'Reilly's Guesthouse|O'Reilly's Rainforest Retreat]]. Lahey wanted the O'Reillys to cease land clearing, for their land to be bought and for the O'Reilly family to leave the mountain.<ref name="thsp">{{cite book |last=O'Reilly |first=Peter |date=August 2008 |title=The Spirit of O'Reillys |publisher=Peter O'Reilly |page=17 |isbn=978-0-646-49601-6 |url=https://biblio.com.au/9780646496016 |access-date=27 October 2021 |archive-date=27 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211027203254/https://biblio.com.au/9780646496016 |url-status=live }}</ref> Lamington National Park was established in 1915.<ref name="xqnp"/> The park was named after [[Charles Cochrane-Baillie, 2nd Baron Lamington|Lord Lamington]], [[Governor of Queensland]] from 1896 to 1902.<ref name="seeing" /><ref name="xqnp"/>

Founding members of the [[National Parks Association of Queensland]] built [[Binna Burra Lodge]] next to the park in the 1930s. In 1937, [[Bernard O'Reilly (author)|Bernard O'Reilly]] became a hero when he rescued the survivors from the [[Airlines of Australia]] [[Stinson Model A]] airliner ''City of Brisbane'', which had [[1937 Australian National Airways Stinson crash|crashed]] in the remote Lamington wilderness.<ref name="xqnp"/> In typical Australian bushman fashion he embarked on his rescue mission taking only onions and bread to eat.  Only a small portion of the original wreck remains today, 10&nbsp;km (6.2 miles) south of the O'Reilly's guesthouse.

In 2019, [[Wildfire|bushfire]]s burnt holes in the rainforest canopy. Prolific weed growth occurs in these gaps.<ref name="stt"/> [[Weed control|Weed eradication]] programs have been funded by the federal government.  The [[Queensland Conservation Council]] has commissioned research showing significant funding is required to maintain the [[Gondwana Rainforests]] of Main Range.<ref name="stt">{{cite web |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-09-06/qld-lantana-weeds-lamington-national-park-2019-bushfires/100435472 |title=Specialist teams target invasive weed taking over Lamington National Park since 2019 bushfires |last=Roberts |first=George |date=6 September 2021 |website=[[ABC News (Australia)|ABC News]] |publisher=[[Australian Broadcasting Corporation]] |access-date=28 October 2021 |archive-date=28 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211028051410/https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-09-06/qld-lantana-weeds-lamington-national-park-2019-bushfires/100435472 |url-status=live }}</ref>  [[Aerial firefighting|Water bombing planes]] were used to subdue fires in the national park.<ref name="qbbb">{{cite web |url=https://7news.com.au/news/bushfires/fifty-bushfires-burning-in-queensland-c-442243 |title=Queensland bushfires: Binna Burra lodge destroyed as dozens of blazes rage |date=9 September 2019 |website=7 News |access-date=29 October 2021 |archive-date=29 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211029014214/https://7news.com.au/news/bushfires/fifty-bushfires-burning-in-queensland-c-442243 |url-status=live }}</ref>