• A cold southerly is whipping through stands of gums, endemic shrubs are in full flower and a frog chorus persists, despite the grey skies. It hardly seems possible that only 11 years ago Spring Bay Mill (on the east coast of lutruwita/Tasmania, on the land of the palawa people) would have resonated with the sounds of heavy machinery and chipping mills, and the air would have been redolent with fuel from the log grapple loaders and smoke from burning chip waste.
