Lane Poole Reserve is in the Jarrah Forest bioregion, also known as the Southwest Australia woodlands.

The densely-vegetated Taxandria swamp thickets provide habitat for quokka (Setonix brachyurus) and the noisy scrub-bird (Atrichornis clamosus).

[3] Threatened marsupials in the reserve include the quokka, woylie (Bettongia penicillata), western ringtail possum (Pseudocheirus occidentalis), and chuditch (Dasyurus geoffroii).

Only one or two roads in the area are sealed, and a Conservation and Land Management (CALM) issues paper identified this as a matter to be rectified, along with the overuse of non-designated campsites, visitor behaviour and safety, dogs in the reserve, and firewood collection.

Such land may have a wide variety of purposes, but are normally related to recreation, wildlife conservation, infrastructure and historical features.