Margaret Friedel Australian Native Plants Society Biennial Conference 2026

Margaret Friedel

Dr Margaret Friedel PSM has been an Adjunct Professor in the Research Institute for Environment & Livelihoods at Charles Darwin University in Alice Springs since 2013. She joined CSIRO Alice Springs in 1974 to research the ecology and management of arid rangelands and since then has explored aspects of range assessment, rehabilitation, tourism, land use planning, policy development and invasive plants. Having retired in 2010, she was appointed an Honorary Fellow with CSIRO Land & Water to 2019 and was made a Fellow of the Australian Rangeland Society in 2017. Marg enjoys writing about rangeland management and engaging with fellow natural history enthusiasts. In recent years she has written about the history of plant invasions – particularly buffel grass – in arid Australia, CSIRO’s 64 years of rangeland research in central Australia and beyond, and the life of Australia’s ‘father of rangelands research’, Ray Perry.

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