The Clarke River (720,000 hectares) and East Burdekin (510,000 hectares) catchments were identified as generating high sediment loads, contributing to the degradation of water quality in the Burdekin Basin. These catchments were identified by using CSIRO's SEdNet modelling.

Issues affecting the Clarke River and East Burdekin catchments include: pasture degradation, declining biodiversity, erosion hot spots, degradation of riparian and frontage country, emerging woody weed problems, overgrazing, and woodland thickening.

This project, which was managed by the Dalrymple Landcare Committee, provided Grazing Land Management training in a property management planing context to graziers. It then part funded on-ground works to facilitate the adoption of improved land management practices, including:

• riparian zone management;
• wet season pasture spelling;
• conservative stocking rates; and
• reclamation of strategic and identified degraded areas.