By the late 1800s, some Australians were trying to preserve natural lands, including the nationally symbolic “bush.” The Forest Act of 1907 established forest reserves, some on abandoned homesteads, including part of Wyperfeld in 1909. After the Second World War, the increasingly mobile and urban population desired more parks. In the 1960s, the government proposed a partial development of the “Little Desert” (visible south of the “Big Desert”); in the backlash of public outcry the plan was canceled, the Little Desert National Park was greatly expanded, and a national conservation agency was created.