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.
[1] There were some offshoot publications apart from the maps and notes.
[2] 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.
[3] The maps correlated broadly to the main regional names: