Table of Contents: Office Bearers 2008/2009; President’s Message 2009: A word from Christa Treasure; Mansfield cattlemen return to their runs; Cattle of the “High Plains” Country; Fires and Water in the High Country Mark Adams; The Battler Billy Ruth; Our Huts – Our Heritage Graeme Stoney; Where the water runs uphill Laurie Webb; World heritage means little when the living heritage is banned; The Brands on the Bar; Buttercup Road, Merrijig Deb McCormack; Ingram attempts to whip State Government into action; Not just a bush fence; The Campdraft Mob Trent/Rusty Connley; An Emergency: Now and Then Buff Rogers; Tributes: Mick Walsh, Col Reynolds, Gerry Egan, Bob Andrews; On the Bookshelf; 34th Annual Get-Together Junction Plain 2008; Minutes of the Annual General Meeting; Our Sponsors; Acknowledgments