Editing Thrushton National Park

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2025}}
{{Use Australian English|date=September 2014}}
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'''Thrushton''' is a national park in [[South West Queensland]], Australia, 520&nbsp;km West of Brisbane.

Dense mulga scrub typical of Queensland's [[Mulga Lands]] bioregion grows in this park. The park also protects flat spinifex sandplains, dry eucalypt woodlands and relics of the former sheep grazing era.

The land was previously grazed by the [[Jim Gasteen|Gasteen]] and other families.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Gasteen|first=Jim|title=Under the mulga: a bush memoir|publisher=University of Queensland Press|year=2005|isbn=0702234451|pages=224}}</ref> They lobbied for it to become a national park in the late 1980s.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Sattler|first=Paul S.|title=Five Million Hectares – A Conservation Memoir – 1972-2008|publisher=Paul Sattler Eco-Consulting|year=2014|isbn=9780994223210|location=Royal Society of Queensland|pages=51}}</ref>

==See also==
{{Portal|Queensland}}
* [[Protected areas of Queensland]]

==References==
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==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20100109112413/http://www.derm.qld.gov.au/parks/thruston/index.html Thrushton National Park]

{{National Parks of Queensland}}

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[[Category:National parks of Queensland]]
[[Category:Protected areas established in 1990]]
[[Category:South West Queensland]]
[[Category:1990 establishments in Australia]]


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