Vegetation Survey of Western Australia

The Vegetation Survey of Western Australia commenced as a project of the Department of Geography of the University of Western Australia 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 project was John Stanley Beard, who was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia 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