Says it all, really. CSG is a major threat to the landscape of our valley and surrounding valleys and many people have joined in the battle to keep CSG mining out of the region. As the mayor of Lismore says, no social contract exists between the city and CSG mining.
While we are only 20 minutes or so away from the luxuriant sub-tropical rainforests of Border Ranges National Park, the 'natural' vegetation of our valley seems to be a mixed forest of dry rainforest species intermixed with an open forest/woodland. Some of the dominant species seem to be flooded gum (the white looking tree on the left), stringbarks, ironbarks, wattles, casuarinas, and hoop pines.
The flooded gums are gorgeous, they can be so white. They can also grow to be very large trees in better watered areas.
A magnificent hoop pine, one of the few native pines, which has a pesky (presumably introduced) vine scaffolding up it. We have a small grove of these pines on our property and it's a very different feeling to walk underneath them. Very little else grows beneath them.
Steel and wood. A combination that has tamed so much of the country.
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