The summit of Mount Donna Buang is surrounded by alpine ash (or woollybutt) trees and sub-alpine snow gums, and at nearby Cement Creek there is a canopy walkway through myrtle beech and mountain ash trees known as the Mount Donna Buang Skywalk.

On the higher slopes sub-alpine species such as woollybutt and snowgum predominate, although myrtle beech is also common almost to the summit.

Some examples include the pink robin, yellow-tailed black cockatoo, the crimson rosella and the rare lyrebird, heard to imitate chainsaws, motorbikes, and other species of birds.

Federal government minister Lee Batchelor suffered a fatal heart attack while climbing Mount Donna Buang in 1911.

[6] Timber from the mountain was harvested from the early 1900s to the mid-1920s with seven cable-hauled tramways moving logs from the Ben Cairn - Donna Buang ridge down to sawmills near Warburton.