project. Government erosion management policies and legislation 1940s The Broken Hill regeneration area project and its outcomes significantly influenced the development of NSW state government soil erosion management policies and legislation. NSW Soil Conservation Service (established 1938) director Sam Clayton, and researcher Noel Beadle, were impressed by the successful revegetation outcomes achieved within the regeneration area. Throughout the 1940s, they pushed for and implemented state government land management policies that aimed to revegetate, by stock exclosure and natural regeneration processes, those landscapes of western NSW that were in a degraded vegetation condition, but were still, fortunately, not yet wind or water eroded. To achieve this outcome, Beadle recognised that tree planting programs were completely unfeasible, given the extent of the problem and the arid conditions. Clayton and Beadle also targeted the revegetation of the twenty million hectares of western NSW that were in an eroded condition. To achieve both of these objectives, state legislation was passed in 1949, and stock exclosure and natural regeneration processes were codified as government land management techniques and policies; overstocking was outlawed. Remembrance and celebration The regeneration area still encircles Broken Hill today, providing the city with an attractive ring of natural vegetation. Broken Hill City Council manages the regeneration area, with the crucial support of Landcare Broken Hill and members of the Barrier Field Naturalists Club. The regeneration reserves were recognised as cultural heritage items by the New South Wales National Trust in 1991. In 2015 the City of Broken Hill was declared a place of national heritage values by the Australian government. As part of this recognition, Albert's achievements, and the Broken Hill regeneration reserves, were listed as heritage values of the city. The work of Albert Morris was valued and commemorated by the citizens of Broken Hill. In 1941 an impressive water fountain, dedicated to his memory and funded by public subscription, was installed outside the Technical College, Argent Street, Broken Hill. In 1944 Margaret Morris opened the Albert Morris Memorial Gates, which are now located in Wentworth Road, Broken Hill. The John Scougall Gates, named after Jack Scougall, a foreman of works on the regeneration reserves and later manager of the Zinc Corporation nursery, stand nearby. A consortium of Australian ecological restoration organisations initiated the Albert Morris Award for an Outstanding Ecological Restoration Project in 2017, to mark the eighty year anniversary of the completion of the first regeneration reserves in