Let's Cleve it Traditional Cache

Let’s Cleve it

A McKee Clan cache

An interesting area of fauna and flora

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Flora and Fauna of Cleve

The most common vegetation association in the area is classified as Open Scrub (Mallee/Broombush), which is typical of most of the mid eastern Eyre Peninsula, consisting of Eucalyptus socialis (summer red mallee), Eucalyptus incrassata (rigde fruited mallee) and Eucalyptus leptophylla (narrow-leafed mallee), with a Melaleuca uncinata (broombush) understorey.

The southern Cleve hillsshow a greater variety of vegetation, with Open Scrub (Mallee/Saltbush), typically containing Eucalyptus porosa (mallee box), Eucalyptus gracilis and Eucalyptus oleosa with an understorey of Atriplex vesicaria (bladder saltbush).

Low Open Forest associations of sheoaks(Allocasuarina verticillata) with a varied understorey of Acaciaspecies, native grasses and heath species are also found in the hills, as are the Blue gum woodlands which occur predominantly in the valleysof the Cleve Hills and along creeklines on the adjacent plains.

The native fauna associated with the region consisted of Euros and Western grey kangaroos which were commonplace until land clearing and the introduction of pest species such as rabbits and foxes.