Posts by Nikki Hill

Lithium Lands Fellowship Final Report

In spring of 2023, Groundwork sponsored the Lithium Lands Fellowship, a month-long immersion field study to document the flora within Jindalee Resources of Australia’s proposed McDermitt Lithium Project site, with a focus on culturally important plants (CIP). CIP are plants traditionally used for food and crafts by Indigenous people. The relative density of these plants in a landscape often point towards ancestral human kinship, as well as current use and significance for local tribes. The fellowship project was motivated by threats to the site from […]

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