Vegetation Survey of Western Australia
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The Vegetation Survey of Western Australia commenced as a project of the Department of Geography of the University of Western Australia
University of Western Australia
The University of Western Australia was established by an Act of the Western Australian Parliament in February 1911, and began teaching students for the first time in 1913. It is the oldest university in the state of Western Australia and the only university in the state to be a member of the...

  to provide vegetation maps for the state on the scales of 1:250,000 and 1:1,000,000. There were some offshoot publications apart from the maps and notes The main author and worker of the whole project was John Stanley Beard
John Stanley Beard
John Stanley Beard was a British-born forester and ecologist who resided in Australia. While working with the Forestry Division in Trinidad and Tobago during the 1940s, Beard developed a system of forest classification for Tropical America and described the forests of Trinidad, Tobago, and the...

who received an OAM for the work in 2003.

The Maps correlated broadly to the main regional names:
  1. Kimberley
  2. Great Sandy Desert
  3. Great Victoria Desert
  4. Nullarbor
  5. Pilbara
  6. Murchison
  7. Swan
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