Editing Taunton National Park (section)

==Management==
Management of Taunton National Park is conducted by the [[Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service]] (QPWS), under the [[Department of Environment and Heritage Protection (Queensland)|Department of Environment and Heritage Protection]] (DERM).<ref name=DERM />  To ensure that cultural heritage values are protected with park management decisions, there is an ongoing partnership between the QPWS and the indigenous land owners; the Kangoulu and Ghungalu people.<ref name=DERM />  General objectives of park management include ensuring the protection and preservation of the parks ecological and biological diversity and values, and ensuring the continued survival of the bridled nail-tail wallaby through provision of predator control and adequate habitat and food resources.<ref name=DERM /><ref name=Drought /><ref name=Rediscovery /><ref name=Genetics /><ref name=PestArrest />    
 
[[Pest control|Pest plant management]] is ongoing in order to control the range and establishment of invasive plant species, and reduce competition with native plants.<ref name=DERM />  In addition, regular [[predator control]] measures are implemented to lower predation pressures on the wallaby, and continued monitoring is conducted to assess the effects and success rate of these pest management strategies.<ref name=Ferals /><ref name=PestArrest />  Domestic stock animals are excluded from the park via fencing, to reduce competition for the wallabies food resources as well as preventing ground and vegetation compaction via trampling.<ref name=DERM /><ref name=Conservation /><ref name=Parasites />  Wallaby population abundance is monitored by quarterly 4-day surveys which span the entire park, to ensure rapid management responses to notable declines in numbers, while issues arising from fire threats, such as destruction of the wallabies brigalow shrub habitat, are managed through fire breaks and [[controlled burn]] regimes.<ref name=DERM /><ref name=Conservation /><ref name=Pops>{{cite journal|author=Fisher, D. O. |author2=Hoyle, S. D. |author3=Blomberg, S. P. |title=Population dynamics and survival of an endangered wallaby: A comparison of four methods.|journal=Ecological Applications|year=2000|volume=10|issue=3|pages=901–910|doi=10.1890/1051-0761(2000)010[0901:PDASOA]2.0.CO;2|url=http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:140261/UQ140261_OA.pdf}}</ref>