Oficinas Caboclas do Tapajós (B&W)
Friday, September 5, 2008 at 3:07PM
[chuck] in Brazil, Science, community forestry

The forest inventories conducted outside of Nugini involved several generations.  The older men knew the names and uses of several hundred trees, but they were also very interested in learning the ways of the younger guys, e.g. d-tapes and hardhats (thx, Iona).


All of the furniture produced by OCT is made exclusively using hand tools (thx, Toby).



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