the surrounding countryside, and his deep botanical knowledge of arid-zone flora species. His own home nursery experiments with sand stabilising plants such as Atriplex spp. saltbushes, further enhanced his regeneration and restoration knowledge. Quite possibly the natural regeneration work of Professor Osborn and the South Australian pastoralists had influenced him. Broad acreage furrowing field trials, conducted in 1935-36 by Morris with local pastoralists on their pastoral stations, facilitated natural regeneration of the indigenous flora and must also have convinced him of the efficacy of natural regeneration as a means of restoring degraded lands. Albert was also possessed of extensive administrative and communication skills. His professional employment as an assayer involved responsible administrative duties, and he utilised this experience to good effect in his volunteer conservation work. As secretary of the Barrier Field Naturalists Club, he corresponded with and lobbied New South Wales state government ministers and other representatives of industry and government bodies, on conservation and restoration matters. In particular, in 1935, he wrote on behalf of the Barrier Field Naturalists to the New South Wales state government, urging the government to establish a fenced natural regeneration area around Broken Hill. In April 1936, Albert and other field naturalists presented detailed submissions on soil and flora conservation, and stock exclosure and natural regeneration techniques, to the New South Wales Erosion Committee. Tree plantations, regeneration reserves 1936 Equipped with evidence of the efficacy of stock exclosure and natural regeneration as a means of restoring eroded lands, in May 1936 Albert and club members commenced lobbying the state government to fence two water reservoir sites in Broken Hill, to exclude stock and rabbits and allow the indigenous flora there to naturally regenerate. Due to Albert's persistence, this work was approved in September 1937, and the fencing was done in April 1939, shortly after his death. However, Albert Morris is best remembered and celebrated for the natural regeneration area that now encircles Broken Hill, a project that is today referred to as the Broken Hill regeneration area. Displaying considerable initiative and management skills, Morris demonstrated to Broken Hill mining executives the botanical feasibility of his plans, and convinced them to financially back the project. The natural regeneration area project was conceived in the winter of 1936, and commenced in the spring of that year. The Zinc Corporation, another Broken Hill mining company, had developed extensive plans to commence construction in 1936 of a