Epping Forest National Park
Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use Australian English Template:Infobox Australian place Epping Forest is a national park in Queensland, Australia, 855 km northwest of Brisbane. The park is a scientific national park so it is not open to the public. Only scientists, rangers and volunteers may visit the park. The park lies within the Brigalow Belt North bioregion.<ref name="mapl11">Template:Cite web</ref> It is within the Drummond Basin geological basin and the Belyando River water catchment area.<ref name="mapl11"/> The park was established to protect a critically endangered species of wombat, the northern hairy-nosed wombat (Lasiorhinus krefftii), the world’s largest burrowing herbivore.<ref name="vonp">Template:Cite web</ref>
Restricted access is used to ensure Epping Forest remains very much undisturbed as it is the sole remaining natural habitat of the endangered Northern hairy-nosed wombat.<ref name="bb">Template:Cite web</ref> The last census of the animal, undertaken in 2007, estimated there was a population of about 138 of the species.<ref name="mapl11"/> In the 1970s the population was estimated to have reached a low of somewhere between 20 and 30 wombats.
Most of the park is eucalypt woodland with patches of sandy soils that are used by the wombats for burrowing.<ref name="mapl11"/>
The wildlife in the park consists of 251 species of animals and 103 species of plants.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
The elevation of the terrain in Epping Forest Park is 230 metres.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
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