a journey through the Yea catchment

LandLearn is pleased to announce that a revised edition of the fieldtrip Keep It Clean - a journey through the Yea catchment, is now available. Thanks to support provided by SITA Environmental Solutions through Landcare Australia, the fieldtrip has been updated and extended so that it now explores the length of the Yea River from the cool temperate forests north east of Toolangi to the farming land near Yea.

The original fieldtrip was developed by Forest Education and LandLearn in 2001 with only minor updates since then so staff have appreciated the opportunity to work with Marion van Gameren from Earthlines to re-write this valued project.

Keep It Clean investigates water quality issues that have developed as a result of the range of human activities in the Yea catchment, and the actions that the different user groups are taking to reduce their impact on the river. The fieldtrip draws on data collected by Waterwatch monitoring over a number years.  The Yea catchment is part of the Murray Darling Basin and the closest point of the Basin to eastern Melbourne, so the fieldtrip provides the opportunity to investigate the characteristics of this section of the Basin.

Keep It Clean is available from LandLearn on CD in pdf format. It includes associated classroom resources with numerous photographs and detailed maps, making it useful for Geography and Environmental Science at Years 9-10 and VCE.

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