Greater-Bendigo-Nationalpark

The Greater Bendigo - National Park is a national park in the center of the Australian state of Victoria, 130 km north- west of Melbourne to the city of Bendigo. The 170- square kilometer park consists of two parts, the larger one in the north of the city, north of Eaglehawk, the much smaller immediately south of Bendigo.

Vegetation

The park was established in 2009 from the Whipstick State Park, the Kamarooka State Park, One Tree Hill Regional Park, the Mandurang State Forest and Sandhurst State Forest. In essence, the park of dense and loose eucalyptus forest. The predominant types of eucalyptus are the Box - Ironbark, the Broombush Mallee and Mallee Kamarooka. Particularly well known is the park for its colorful wildflowers in the spring.

History

Originally the land was inhabited for millennia Wurrung to the present city of Bendigo from the Dja Dja Aboriginesstamm. Their descendants care of it today Dja Dja Wrung as part of the Aboriginal Association, Inc. for the preservation of the heritage of their ancestors.

In the 1830s and 1840s, initially populated European -born sheep farmers of the area. In the 1850s, the gold rush began, and the gold miners dug the land piece by piece to. Today one can find in the park many traces of gold prospectors, for example, tunnels, dams and old diversion routes for streams.

Then the eucalyptus oil industry was later addition to the charcoal production of vital industry in this country, particularly in the northern part of today's National Park to Kamarooka. So lost by logging until today 83 percent of the typical for this region Box Ironbark Forest.