Ideal Responses

Unit 3 Outcome 1 2015

Ideal response
Describe how an indigenous communitys
relationship with the outdoor environment has
changed since European colonisation.

Jardwadjali and Djabwurrung tribes perceptions more or less stayed

the same in believing they were custodians of the land rather than
owners. Yet their interactions with the land began to change. They
would now hunt introduced species such as cattle and sheep. They
would often raid European settlements for goods such as flour and
tobacco. Their nomadic lifestyle began to diminish as many of their food
sources were in one particular area and british ownership restricted
their movement. The Europeans also banned firestick farming and many
other traditional practices, so the Jardwadjali and Djabwurrung could no
longer interact with nature as they did in the past. This improved the
vegetation in the area, but subsequently led to bigger and more intense
bushfires. Today their interactions surround education and heritage
protection as seen through the Brambuk Cultural Centre in Halls gap.

Ideal response
Analyse the relationship first non-indigenous
settlers had with an outdoor environment you have
or studied.
visited
First settlers of the Grampians and surrounding areas

believed that the land was created for them by god to

tame and control. When they first arrived, they
considered the land to be Terra Nullius which meant
that the land simply belonged to no-one. They began
farming practices in the area which required
deforestation of areas within and around the
Grampians area. They also began introducing nonnative species such as the fox, which interfered with
the natives and became a pest species. Hard hooved
animals also were introduced which caused significant
top soil degradation.

Ideal Response
Analyse how relationships with outdoor
environments developed into the time of increasing
population, in relation to an outdoor environment
you have
visited
or studied.population in the Grampians
During
the time
of increasing

and surrounding areas, there was a perception of the land

being a resource and a place to get rich quick. Gold
mining began in Stawell which was associated with large
level land clearing to access and support mining
structures as well as building dwellings in the town. The
mining practices impacted the area significantly with land
being heavily degraded via chemical leeching and soil
erosion as well as the loss of habitats, impacting native
animals such as possums and koalas.

Ideal Response
Analyse how relationships with outdoor environments
developed into the time of industrialisation, in relation
to an outdoor environment you have visited or studied.

Industrialisation saw extensive industrial processes take

place, as the environment was seen as a resource that could
harnessed and used in the process of Grampians stone
quarrying. This encouraged perceptions of the environment
being subservient to humans and a resource of the highest
scale. Interactions such as quarrying and large scale
agriculture occurred in the Grampians and surrounding
areas and these materials were used to generate profits.
Impacts such as pollution from industrial smog, dryland
salinity and chemicals leeching into the waterways, with
impacts still seen around the remains of Heatherlie quarry.

Ideal Response
Analyse how relationships with outdoor environments
developed into the time of Nation Building, in relation to
an outdoor environment you have visited or studied.

During the time of Nation Building, Australians began to recognise not only
the economic but also the intrinsic value in the land. There were varying
perceptions similar to our own today of nature being not only a resource but a
gymnasium and cathedral to respect. In the Grampians and surrounding
interactions included the development of Bellfield dam, creation of Grampians
as a National Park and the further development of roads and infrastructure to
suffice the increased numbers of Victorians wanting to explore natural
environments. Increased access to the area lead to and increase in introduced
and pest species agiain competing with native fauna. Significant impacts to
local flora and fauna also occurred with the daming of Lake Bellfield to supply
water to surrounding areas causing competition with introduced species and
modified migration patterns. Growth in the conservation movement lead to
improved appreciation and management of Grampians National Park.