vue - Bamboo Revolution & Bamboo Valley Begin Growing Bamboo for Timber Harvest
Bamboo Revolution, in partnership with Bamboo Valley, have taken the first crucial steps towards creating a timber bamboo industry based in Oregon. In 2009, they transplanted live Moso bamboo plants to Oregon from Louisiana. In early 2011, another trip was made adding to the current stock, now growing in Albany, Oregon. Over the past two years, Bamboo Revolution and Bamboo Valley built a relationship with Andy Ringle of Avery Island, La., home of Tabasco® pepper sauce. His family holds a lease on one of the oldest timber bamboo groves in America. Planted in 1910 by former Tabasco president E. A. McIlhenny, in cooperation with the USDA, this grove represented, at the time, an initial step toward the establishment of a bamboo industry in this country. However, with McIlhenny's death in 1949 this potential remained largely unrealized, and many of the bamboo groves that McIlhenny planted on Avery Island were left unmanaged and fell into neglect. In October 2009, 10 Bamboo Revolution employees and Dain Sansome of Bamboo Valley traveled to Louisiana to help restore the bamboo groves. In return, they received permission to transplant live plants to Bamboo Revolution's cooperative farm with Bamboo Valley, an established bamboo farm in Albany, Ore. Bamboo can be harvested after just four to six years of growth, whereas comparable wood species take 30-60 years to reach harvestable maturity. The harvested material is manufactured into panels, veneer, flooring, countertops, and other building materials. Developing a bamboo industry within the United States will reduce the distance the materials are transported, sequester carbon, and create jobs for industries and communities hit hard by the changing economy.
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Yes!
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with bamboo and mushrooms our society will survive
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I wanna bamboo farm in Nepal how to do it ?
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very cool. I enjoyed the shout to Van Jones.
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beautifully inspiring, and i am aspiring to doing the same thing in oklahoma.
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This is a great way to start again in a clear cut countryside. Go green!
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I have a grove 40 years old
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This video makes me want to start a bamboo farm in Southern Nevada. :)
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a good friend of mine lives on Avery Island. He's from the Avery side of the family, his cousin is CEO of Tabasco.
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Are there any updates?
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thats some goood grass
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timberbamboonursery
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nagyon tetszenek ezek a videóka bambuszokról . kár hogy nincsleforditva magyarra.
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I grow Moso in Fl.3"culms this year.I too want to make it a profitable farming project on my 21 acres
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van jones...really!? total corrupt scum he is. you lost all credibility when that name was mentioned.
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well I have to say the way Obama is working on the (PUSHING us DOWN to the rest of the world) Pay wise, You might get your wish!
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My structures professor (Architecture and Building Engineering in Vancouver) is very excited about this project. He is certain that bamboo trusses and joists are at least the same strength as regular lumber, for less material. Curved glulam beams require a lot of pressure to be put together, while bamboo apparently doesn't. A tree grows for 60 years, bamboo matures just in 4.
So far the market for bamboo is just arhitectural - flooring, decorations, paper, etc. Let's promote research of bamboo for structural uses! -
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You lost me when you mentioned Marxist Van Jones
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Bamboo is very useful and should be grown more often. Is there a market for harvested bamboo?
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