Was out at Julimar Conservation Park on Sunday with Tracy. A few photos and a poem in support of the mixed woodlands/forest (below). This article from Landscope is useful regarding some of the colonial incursion/history of the place and its importance in the now. I don't agree with some of the approaches in the article (especially regarding four-wheel driving), but the piece does highlight the importance of the 'park'. It is vital we keep focus on the forest and the threat it is under from Chalice Mining. Also see this article at Hike West regarding the threat to environment from Chalice.

Investor Notes for Chalice Mining’s Persecution of Land at Julimar

‘sombre woods’

The Argonautica

With settler familiarity the forest is brow-beaten

by four-wheel drives and pig hunters. Pigs are the lament-

excuse-justification for blood-letting, a way around

circumventions. And then there’s the farm turned

into a minefield — a mine in a field, or rather

the exploratory drills for a mine in a field

that will dilate into the forest if the company

has its way with relevant government agencies —

the lamenting and unravelling of ‘green tape’. In case

you shoulder wonder about deployments of language

for investors, try ‘Gonneville Intrusion’ as the name

for these activities. Or, ‘strategic deposit’ of ‘critical

minerals.’ Intrusion strategic critical deposit. And

‘expand footprint’. Definition. Seven rigs — diamond

and reverse circulation. Farmland entrée. And then...

and then the full run of revelation with missionary zeal.

And this poem-addendum to petition that lives in the mind

of the forest and its readers — the wandoo and jarrah

and marri trees in full awareness of what lies

beneath in the ‘complex’, speaking with words

that will be extinguished before they can find

a way past investor vocabularies, before they

can upset degrees of separation, the consequences

of portfolios. Oh, blue leschenaultia

and kangaroo paws were still flowering

and a light breeze was a sombre ocean

in the mixed woodland when we visited

over on Sunday — as the company’s advance 

gathers pace, as the ‘maiden resource’

PRs its heroics, buys into community,

spreads news of inevitability, of success.

John Kinsella