Page 4 Oregon Historical Society General Readings Eric Sloane. Reverence for Wood. Ballantine Books. (Also: American Barns, Museum of Early American Tools, ...) Rutherford and Platt. The Great American Forest. Yearbooks of Agriculture, esp. 1948 - Grass (see pp. 594ff., "The Use of Logged-Off Land"); and 1957-Soil. Brooklyn Botanic Garden Handbooks Log Scaling & Timber Cruising, J.R. Dilworth, OSU Bookstores, Corvallis, Or. Northwest Publications, Pacific Northwest Forest & Range Experiment Station, P.O. Box 3141, Portland, 97208. Franklin and Dyrness. Natural Vegetation of Oregon & Washington. Randall & Keniston. Manual ofOregon Trees & Shrubs. OSU Bookstores. Woodland Handbook for the Pacific Northwest. Prepared by the Oregon Woodland Publications Council and the Washington Woodland Council, published by the Cooperative Extension Service, Oregon State University, Corvallis. Where to Get Pacific Bamboo Gardens, 4754 Vista Lane, San Diego, California 92116 Forestation Notes. Frank TerBush, editor. U.S. Forest Service, Division of State & Private Forestray, Box 3623, Portland 97208. One issue has listings of nurseries which supply bare-root seedlings for forestry plantings. USDA's Agricultural Stabilization & Conservation Service has reforestation and other land-building programs. They will pay 75% of cost of reforestation at the rates of $85/M seedlings planted, $3 5 /acre for site preparation. F.W. Schumacher, Sandwich, Mass. Excellent seed company-grow your own woodlot of useful trees (See Eric Sloane, A Reverence for Wood, et al., and Rutherford Platt, The Great American Forest.) Department of Forestry, State of Oregon, 2600 State Street, Salem 97 310. Their Elkton nursery's prices this year: Douglas Fir-$34/M, Poplar-$75 /M. Randy Chakarian See also: Community, Computer, Education, Media. January, 1975 E-RCHITECTURE ) Solar Heated Buildings: A Brief Survey Dr. William A. Shurcliff Solar Energy Digest P.O. Box 17776 San Diego, Ca. 92117 Fifth edition. Data on 68 houses, schools and commercial buildings. (High Country News) His (Baldasare Forestiere) main tools were hand tools, a pick, a shovel and a wheelbarrow; a horse and a small scraper were used to move large rocks. He dug over 90 rooms, passages and courts, each with an Of?en hole to the surface for light and water, and each with a fruit tree immediately below. He dug most of the rooms ten feet below the surface, a small lower level 23 feet below, and another few rooms 35 feet below the surface. His big dream was a restaurant .. . (Harpers Weekly) NAHB Research Foundation, Inc. P.O. Box 1627 Rockville, Maryland 20850 301-762-4200 The National Association of home builders. They publish a very good manual, the "Insulation Manual"- homes, apartments. $4, with locations, amounts, techniques, design and operating cost data for 561 communities. Also from them: "Manual of Lumber and Plywood Saving Techniques," for residential light frame construction. Various options in allowable support load factors. $3 .50. Soil Cement: Its Use in Buildings Available from: United Nations, Sales Section New York, N.Y. 10017 Prepared by the Inter-American Housing and Planning Centre. National University of Columbia, Bogota. (1964, $1.50). Information regarding types of soils used used, lengthy instructional data, models, Oregon Historical Society results of experiments.
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