Message-Id: <1.5.4.32.19980624022447.006a7474@tscnet.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 19:24:47 -0700
To: baidarka@lists.intelenet.net
From: stephen <syahn@tscnet.com>
Subject: [baidarka] lombarding
I read somewhere once that in France in ages past it was a common practice
to harvest limbs off of walnut trees. Not cutting down the whole tree! With
the big root system of a whole big tree the plant could produce more
usefulness. Lumber and a forest all together. To lombard,I believe it was
called.
Cutting some willow or whippy branches from many plants but killing none
would seem to be the purest form of baidarka making I think,IMHO.
Do I remember reading somewhere that some First People's kayaks carried
ballast stones? They must have had very narrow hulls.
Happy Summer Paddling,Steve Yahn