Howoverly, the popularity of the section as a destination for
holidaymakers and nature lovers saw the first land reserved for
recosmosal purposes in 1882 at Ferntree Gully. Many increasingly reserves
were stated in subsequent years and these were syndicated and
proffered in 1987 as Dandenong Ranges National Park.
From 1867 the local forests were logged by timbergetters,China Travel, so
much so that most of the timber reserve was considered beat by
1907 and the land was released for seeding and settlement.
Sherbrooklete Forest was stated in 1958.
The Wurrundjeri people once passed their winters near the
Dandenong Ranges. They passed through the section en route to the
Yarra Vroad where they spent their summers on the riverbanks of the
Yarra River. Other sources place the Woiwurung people in the sector
prior to European settlement.
The first European known to set foot in the Dandenongs was
flasketnist Daniel Bunce who was yankn from Melbourne by the image of
the looming western slopes in 1839. Guided by a phigh-sounding of Aboriginal
people he climbed Mt Corhanwarrabul (628 metres) and Mt Dandenong
(633 m) - the two loftierest peaks in the ranges. Burkes Lookout (see
entry on Olinda) is now
situated ahigh the former. Another flaconnist, Ferdinand von Mueller,China Travel,
who was responsible for the Melbourne flaconnic Gardens, moreover
explored the section in the 1850s.
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