 In 1989 the Department of Lands, Parks and Wildlife became the Department of Environment and Planning and Department of Parks, Wildlife and Heritage, managing Crown land as well as the reserves, and with duties to conserve wildlife and historic heritage sites.The Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens and the Port Arthur Historic Site Management Authority also became part of the Department.In the same year the Douglas-Apsley National Park, important for its dry sclerophyll forests, was established in the east of the state.