BAMBOO IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST
C. Barry
every other kind of vegetation. Where are you proposing to plant it?
Have the impacts on indigenous vegetation been taken into consideration?
Perhaps I'm wrong, but I don't think bamboo is indigenous.
On 5 Apr 1996, Gib Cooper wrote:
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> BAMBOO IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST
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> On June 24-25, 1994 one hundred bamboo professionals and enthusiasts
> gathered in Gold Beach, Oregon to focus on the future of the fledgling
> bamboo industry in the Pacific Northwest. The two days that followed were
> loaded with the intensity only "bambuseros" (a word coined for American
> bamboo lovers) can achieve when brought together in large groups to
> exchange knowledge. Those who attended gained new understanding about the
> process of developing bamboo as a agro-forestry crop for our region.
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> The active group listened to a day of presentations by a series of
> speakers. The next day, a work session of bamboo specialists and interested
> people moderated by local host, Gib Cooper, produced a list of seven
> attainable goals for developing the the bamboo industry in the Pacific
> Northwest. One of the goals was to compile the presentations and work
> session into a book.
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> BAMBOO IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST is the result of Gib Cooper's editing seven
> manuscripts and the work session. The book (and workshop) is the first in
> a series of attempts to organize and quantify the business of bamboo
> production, product development and marketing. The ninety pages discuss
> paper pulp development, bamboo history and ecology, bamboo on the farm,
> results of bamboo in permaculture plantings, timber bamboo pole production,
> and include an interesting article on developing a bamboo plantation in
> Vietnam. In addition to providing a summary of the workshop, the editor
> updates progress of the goals since 1994. Also included is a list of
> participating organizations and individuals.
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> Sales of the book will aid in funding the 1997 Pacific Northwest Bamboo
> Agro-forestry Workshop scheduled for June 21-22, 1997 at Centralia College
> in Washington state. The workshop is actively supported by the Pacific
> Northwest Chapter of the American Bamboo Society (PNC-ABS).
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> BAMBOO IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST is now available. To have a copy shipped to
> you in the USA send a check made out to PNC-ABS for $18. Mail the check to
> PNW Bamboo Workshop, 28446 Hunter Creek Loop, Gold Beach, OR 97444. Copies
> of the book can also be purchased for $15 at meetings and events of the
> PNC-ABS. Contact Dean Hines, 15211 -91st Ave. SE, Snohomish, WA 98290 for
> information about joining the society. Dues are $10 a year. The PNC-ABS is
> the largest regional chapter of the American Bamboo Society.
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