Editing Stirling Range National Park (section)

==History==
The [[traditional owners]] are the [[Mineng]] and [[Koreng]] groups<ref name=env/> of the [[Noongar]] peoples who have inhabited the region for tens of thousands of years. The Noongar know the range as ''Koi Kyenunu-ruff'' which means ''mist moving around the mountains''. The area was important to Indigenous Australians with the surrounding lowlands providing many sources of food. The women gathered seeds, roots and fruit while men hunted kangaroos and other animals.<ref name=dpaw>{{cite web|url=https://parks.dpaw.wa.gov.au/sites/default/files/imce/20150391%20Stirling%20RangeNP%20Bro%20WEB%20layout.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190110013756/https://parks.dpaw.wa.gov.au/sites/default/files/imce/20150391%20Stirling%20RangeNP%20Bro%20WEB%20layout.pdf |archive-date=2019-01-10 |url-status=live|title=Stirling Range National Park|access-date=9 January 2019|publisher=Department of Parks and Wildlife}}</ref>

The first European to sight the range was [[Matthew Flinders]] in January 1802 while he was exploring the southern coast of Australia. He named the range Mount Rugged.<ref name=env/>

Ensign Dale explored the area in 1832 and climbed [[Toolbrunup]].<ref name=unknown/>

Stirling Range was named by the surveyor [[John Septimus Roe]] in 1835 after the Governor of the [[Swan River Colony]], [[James Stirling (Royal Navy officer)|James Stirling]], even though Stirling never actually visited the area.<ref name=plan>{{cite web|url=https://www.dpaw.wa.gov.au/images/documents/parks/management-plans/decarchive/stirling-porongorup_nps.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150404092903/http://www.dpaw.wa.gov.au/images/documents/parks/management-plans/decarchive/stirling-porongorup_nps.pdf |archive-date=2015-04-04 |url-status=live|title=Stirling Range and Porongurup National Parks Management Plan 1999 - 2009|year=1999|access-date=9 January 2019|publisher=Department of Conservation and Land Management}}</ref>

[[Sandalwood]] cutters established a track through the park in about 1848. European settlers arrived in the late 1800s initially around [[Amelup, Western Australia|Amelup]] and farmed much of the surrounding areas. [[John Forrest]] climbed Toolbrunup in 1881 with Henry Samuel Ranford and made a [[cairn]] at the summit.<ref name=unknown/>

The boundaries of the park were first suggested by Jas Hope, the Chief Draftsperson of the Lands and Survey Department, in 1908 and approved by {{thinspace|N.|J.}} Moore who was the Minister of Lands at the time.<ref name="unknown">{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article57972144 |title=Our Unknown National Park|newspaper=[[Sunday Times (Perth)]] |issue=1198 |location=Western Australia |date=19 December 1920 |access-date=10 January 2019 |page=4 (Second Section) |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>

The National Park was gazetted in 1913 and the first park ranger was appointed in 1964.<ref name=plan/>

The park was listed as a [[Australian National Heritage List|National Heritage place]] in 2006.<ref name=env>{{cite web|url=http://www.environment.gov.au/heritage/places/national/stirling-range|title=National Heritage Places - Stirling Range National Park|access-date=9 January 2019|publisher=[[Department of the Environment and Energy]]}}</ref>

In 2020, a bushfire caused by lightning devastated 40,000 hectares of park land.<ref>{{Cite news|date=2020-01-07|title='Centuries' to recover: WA bushfires devastate one of the world's richest biodiversity hotspots|language=en-AU|work=ABC News|url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-01-07/bushfires-cause-stirling-ranges-biodiversity-to-be-devastated/11844516|access-date=2021-10-17}}</ref>

In August 2022, there was a lot of snow in the park.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-08-09/snow-falls-in-stirling-range-national-park-western-australia/101316212 | title=Snow falls on southern Western Australia's highest peak as another cold snap hits | newspaper=ABC News | date=9 August 2022 }}</ref>