| Lesueur National Park Western Australia | |
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 Mount Lesueur | |
  Lesueur National Park | |
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| Nearest town or city | Jurien Bay |
| Coordinates | 30°08′04″S115°06′02″E / 30.13444°S 115.10056°E /-30.13444; 115.10056 |
| Established | 1992 |
| Area | 272.35 km2 (105.2 sq mi)[1] |
| Managing authorities | Department of Environment and Conservation |
| Website | Lesueur National Park |
| See also | List of protected areas of Western Australia |
Lesueur National Park is a national park straddling the boundary between theWheatbelt andMid West regions ofWestern Australia, 211 km north ofPerth. The park was gazetted in 1992. It includes twomesas known asMount Lesueur and Mount Michaud, and supports a highly diverseflora.
Lesueur National Park lies in the Geraldton Sandplainsbioregion, which is characterised by scrubby heath with a high number of plants from the familyProteaceae.
Vegetation in the park is structurally complex, with patches of woodland amongst shrublands.[2]
There are over 900indigenous plant species in the park, many of which areendemic.[2] Rare orthreatened species include theMount Lesueur Grevillea,Forrest's Wattle, theLesueur Hakea and theLaterite Mallee.
The park is the northern limit forJarrah andMountain Marri, both of which grow asmallees instead of the more usual tall tree form.
Lesueur National Park is under threat from the effects ofPhytophthora dieback, a disease which kills plants and is spread through movement of infected soil or water.[3]
In the 1980s, due to appraisals of coal deposits in the area, the Mount Lesueur and Hill River areas were in controversy over proposedcoal mining and power station development,[4][5][6] until the creation of the National Park in 1990.[7]
