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== Management == The national park is currently managed by the department of national parks, recreation, sports and racing (NPRSR),<ref name="Queensland Government 2012">Queensland Government, 2012. Bunya Mountains National Park Management Statement 2012 (Management Plan). Department of National Parks, Recreation, Sport and Racing.</ref> There has been an integrated program of burning the unique grassland ''balds'' by Queensland Parks and Wildlife in the Bunya Mountains since the late 1990s with 27% of unburnt balds being burnt for the first time in many years. There have been difficulties in recovering a number of balds which have well established forest canopies due to decades of non-burning, these balds may be too far gone to recover. Some balds which have had significant forest species invasion have had mechanical removal and coppicing of trees to aid recovery of the balds through burning <ref>Fairfax, R., Fensham, R., Butler, D., Quinn, K., Sigley, B., Holman, J., 2009. Effects of multiple fires on tree invasion in montane grasslands. Landsc. Ecol. 24, 1363–1373. doi:10.1007/s10980-009-9388-y</ref><ref>Fensham, R., Fairfax, R., 1996. The Disappearing Grassy Balds of the Bunya Mountains, South-Eastern Queensland. Aust. J. Bot. 44, 543–558. </ref><ref>Fensham, R.J., Fairfax, R.J., 2006. Can burning restrict eucalypt invasion on grassy balds? Austral Ecol. 31, 317–325. doi:10.1111/j.1442-9993.2006.01560.x</ref> .<ref>Butler, D.W., Fairfax, R.J., Fensham, R.J., 2006. Impacts of tree invasion on floristic composition of subtropical grasslands on the Bunya Mountains, Australia. Aust. J. Bot. 54, 261–270.</ref> Proactive fire management is a priority within the current management plan for the Bunya Mountains National Park with additional importance given to partnerships with traditional owners using traditional fire techniques in restoring and maintaining the grasslands. Australian Government initiatives such as the ‘Working on Country’ Program has been active on the mountain since 2009 allowing greater conservation action through additional rangers and resources being used to enable recovery of this unique threatened grassland landscape.<ref name="markwell" /><ref name="Queensland Government 2012"/><ref>Calland, D., 2012. Natural and cultural resource management - The aspirations of the traditional custodians of the Bunya Mountains. EMR Proj. Summ.</ref>
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