Barambah Environmental Education Centre is an Education Queensland accommodation facility and is situated in Wratten's State Forest 50 km west of Gympie and 48 km east of Murgon. 

The Queensland Education Department acquired the site known as “A” Flat Forestry Camp in 1977 as part of its commitment to support the implementation of environmental education in Queensland schools.

The site was first established as a Forestry Camp in 1945.  The Forestry workers were employed in the Kabunga Nursery growing and also planting Hoop Pine in the forest plantations at Jimmy’s Scrub and “A” Flat.

Facilities at the Centre in 1977 were very basic with an office, a corrugated iron walled dining room with an open fire place for cooking meals and three wooden sleeping quarters. There were no gardens and only a few trees in the Centre grounds.

Today the Centre has been transformed into a beautiful oasis with native gardens and established trees.  An extensive plant nursery, with three hot houses and a large fenced hardening area has also been established.  In 199? the old Gallangowan school was moved to the Centre which is now used as the office and staff room.  The old office is now the library and resource room.  The dining room and kitchen facilities have been updated and now easily cater for all groups who utilise the Centre.  In mid 2005 another timber accommodation building was moved to the Centre and now has the capacity to sleep seventy-nine. 

Over the years the Centre has had a number of name changes from its beginning in 1977 as the Mary River Field Study Centre.  In 1980 the Centre was know as the Barambah Field Study Centre and in 1988 was again changed to it present name Barambah Environmental Education Centre.

The centre is situated on a traditional Aboriginal pathway, a fact confirmed by Gubbi Gubbi and Wakka Wakka elders from Cherbourg and Murgon. The elders have indicated that traditional Aboriginal groups passed through the local area on their way to major bunya pine forests to the north west of the centre.

A number of Aboriginal artifacts have been found in the local vicinity over the 28 years that the centre has been established and there are a number of examples of past use of the forest by Aboriginal groups.