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>Date: Fri, 18 Jul 1997 10:29:18 -0400
>From: D H BARKER <GEOCON@compuserve.com>
>Subject: Re. Mulberry plants (Morus alba)
>To: "Anthony R. Brach" <brach@oeb.harvard.edu>
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>Dear Anthony
>
>Thank you very much for the references which I am sending on also to my
>colleague Bernhard Mohns of the GTZ (German Overseas Aid Organisation) who
>is the Project Manager for the Sri Lankan-German Technical Co-operation
>Upper Mahaweli Watershed Management Project. We are working on a
>bioengineering slope stablisation scheme as an extension of this project.
>
>Mulberry has worked well in a small scale field trial Bernhard has done
>using large Mulberry cuttings and I wanted to know more about the plant.
>
> Although now based in the UK I have spent several years in S E Asia and am
>organising a conference on ground and water bioengineering for slope
>stabilisation and erosion control in the Asia-Pacific region. It will be
>held in Manila on 19-21 April 1999. I am looking for contacts in China and
>elsewhere in the region - Japan, the Koreas, Formosa etc who might be able
>to give names and addresses of organisations and people who might be
>interested in attending. This is turning into another request!
>
>By way of background, I have gained sponsorship of the Road Engineering
>Association of Asia and Australasia, the World Association of Soil and
>Water Conservation, the International Erosion Control Association for this
>event, together with the Philippine government's Departments of Public
>Works, & Highways (DPWH) and Environment & Natural Resources (DENR), and
>many other Philippine organisations - Philippine Council for Agriculture,
>Forestry & Natural resources Research & Development, (PCARRD) etc. as well
>as a a couple of mining companies - the more responsible ones anyway.
>
>The conference and associated exhibition is aimed at a whole raft of
>disciplines - ecologists, botanists, foresters, soil scientists,
>landscapers, civil engineers, mining engineers, river and hydro-power
>engineers, hydrologists, geomorphologists - working in the landscape with
>an aim to foster increased environmental merit (or alternatively reduced
>degradation of the environment due to badly conducted infrastructural
>projects resulting in erosion, sedimentation and slope instability) and at
>the same time gain from the very real contributions to the durability and
>performance of highways and other site formation projects which arise from
>the engineering functions of vegetation.
>
>on another tack, I am particularly interested also in the Flora of the
>GREAT (acronym for Great River Ecosystems of Asia Trust) region - SE
>Tibet, WSW Sichuan, NW Yunnan, E Arunachal Pradesh and N Myanmar. The area
>Kingdon-Ward spent many years traversing. My father and uncle also spent
>some time there in the 1930's- the latter when working as a river and port
>engineer on the river Irrawaddy and its upper tributeries. Most of it lies
>within your orbit, so I will keep in touch!
>
>Thanks again.
>David Barker Model Farm, Crockham Hill Edenbridge, Kent TN8 6SR,
>England.
>
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