General resources

Publications

The Negev: The Challenge of a Desert, 2nd ed., by Michael Evenari, Leslie Shanan, and Naphtali Tadmor. Harvard University Press, 1982.

The Collection of Rainfall and Runoff in Rural Areas, by Arnold Pacey and Adrian Cullis. Intermediate Technology Publications, 1986.

Permaculture: A Designer’s Manual, by Bill Mollison. Tagari, 1988. See chapters 7 and 9.

CD-ROM

Training Course on Water Harvesting for Improved Agricultural Production, Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations, 2003, www.fao.org.

Guides using berms as roads

Green Streets: Innovative Solutions for Stormwater and Stream Crossings, by Metro, 2002.

Handbook for Forest and Ranch Roads: A Guide for Planning, Designing, Constructing, Reconstructing, Maintaining, and Closing Wildland Roads, by William Weaver and Danny Hagans. Mendocino County Resource Conservation District, June, 1994.

Water Harvesting from Low-Standard Rural Roads by Bill Zeedyk. Quivira Coalition, April 2006, www.quiviracoalition.org.

Water for Every Farm: Yeomans Keyline Plan by Ken Yeomans and P.A. Yeomans. Keyline Designs, 1993, www.keyline.com.au/. See more keyline resources under chapter 9.

Planting fire breaks and designing for fire protection

Publications

Defensible Space Landscaping in the Urban/Wild Interface, by the University of California Forest Products Laboratory, 1997. Online: http://nature.berkeley.edu/~fbeall/HODefSpaceGuide.pdf.

The Flywire House: A Case Study in Design Against Bushfire, by David Holmgren, Nascimanere Pty Ltd, Crystal Waters, 1993. Holmgren’s website: www.holmgren.com.au.

Online

www.firewise.org. The website of Fire Wise.

www.fs.fed.us/database/feis/. The website of Fire Effects Information.

Windbreak and snowbreak design

Energy Conserving Site Design, by E. Gregory McPherson. American Society of Landscape Architects, 1984, pp. 165-83.

Permaculture: A Designers’ Manual, by Bill Mollison. Tagari Publications, 1988, pp. 386-87.

Contact your local Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS) district agent. The NRCS is a program of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, www.nrcs.usda.gov.