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Books, articles, records and pictures in the index about Duke land purchases in Orange County, found by its names in titles, catalog subjects and the index’s descriptions, and read one by one. Those held at OCPL come first.
Rachel Frankel's Duke University honors paper of 1984 on the Couch tract in the Durham Division of Duke Forest, a history of agricultural land use from 1750 to 1950. The Couch family, family farms and rural land use in Orange County are its subjects. A photocopied typescript, 97 leaves with maps and a bibliography.
Map of the Duke Forest's Durham Division issued in 2005 by the Office of the Duke Forest at Duke University, with the Korstian Division on the reverse. Both sides carry legends and rules for recreation and safety on the forest trails, which reach into Durham, Orange and Alamance counties.
A 2005 map of Duke Forest's Blackwood and Eno divisions in Orange County and toward Alamance County. The map concerns forestry and trails in the university teaching forest.
Robert Shapiro's 2004 measurements of radon-222 escaping from forest soil and of gas exchange between the canopy and the atmosphere, carried out in the Duke Forest. The work covers radon measurement and gas exchange in plants in Orange County. A short scientific study, with a bibliography on leaves 17 and 18, of the research forest that spreads across the county line.
Ian Cline MacGregor's 2002 study of a new way to measure alpha pinene emission from a loblolly pine canopy, with the fieldwork done in the Blackwood Division of the Duke University Research Forest, which lies inside Orange County. It covers forest canopy ecology and loblolly pine. Bibliography on leaves 62 through 73.
Christine C. Muth compared ways of measuring how well woody plants tolerate the understory, using five permanent research plots in Durham and Orange counties, among them Duke Forest and the Mason Farm Biological Reserve. The 1996 paper runs to twenty-five pages with seventeen leaves of illustrations and a bibliography.
Melissa S. Goldman's 1994 report estimates soil loss from recreational use in Duke Forest and at West Point on the Eno City Park. Subjects include soil erosion in Duke Forest and along the Eno River, recreational use of experimental forests and parks, and rivers used for recreation. Forty seven leaves with preliminary pages. Duke Forest reaches into Orange County as well as Durham.
A 1993 studio report from the Department of City and Regional Planning at the University of North Carolina, proposing an open space corridor to link Duke Forest with Eno River State Park. Nine students prepared it under Marvin Collins, director of the Orange County Planning Department, with David Godschalk as faculty advisor. About 60 pages with maps, some in color.
Robert B. Smythe's research report on forest soil arthropods and how their community structure answers to controlled changes in habitat. The fieldwork sits in Duke Forest, the research woodland that reaches into Orange County, and the study treats arthropod ecology and the effects of habitat modification on forest soil fauna. Dated 1986, with a bibliography on leaves 119 to 128.
Dennis F. Whigham's ecological study of Uvularia perfoliata, a woodland lily, in the Blackwood Division of Duke Forest, the research tract that lies in Orange County. Written in 1971 under the direction of Helmut Leith, with a bibliography on leaves 166 to 170. Of interest for the long record of ecological work in Duke Forest.
A color forest cover map of the Durham Division of Duke Forest as it stood on July 1, 1944, drawn at a scale of one inch to 800 feet on a sheet 54 by 97 centimeters. It marks cover types, age classes of trees, roads and Duke University's West Campus, and an inset locates the whole forest, which reaches across the Durham and Orange county line.
The Hillsboro Division of Duke Forest mapped as of July 1, 1931, at a scale of one inch to 800 feet, showing cover types, the age of the trees and the roads through the tract. Lithographed by A. Hoen and Company of Baltimore and dated November 1932, the sheet measures 29 by 34 centimeters and covers forest land in Orange County.
New Hope Creek Division of Duke Forest, recorded as of July 1, 1931 on a color sheet 44 by 53 centimeters at one inch to 800 feet. Cover types, tree ages and roads are marked on it. A. Hoen and Company of Baltimore printed the map in November 1932. It concerns forests, forestry and trees in Orange County.
Map of forest cover in the Korstian Division of Duke Forest, the teaching and research forest of Duke University, printed by Greensboro Printing Company and dated May 1986 to December 1987.
A forest cover map of the Durham Division of Duke Forest, printed by the Greensboro Printing Company and dated May 1986 to December 1987. From the North Carolina Collection, in DigitalNC's Images of North Carolina collection.
Map of the Blackwood, Eno and Hillsboro divisions of the Duke Forest, printed by Winston Printing Company of Winston-Salem, showing forest cover types, tree age classes and roads. An inset locates the whole Duke Forest as of May 1975, and the dates run from May 1975 to December 1978.
Forest cover map of the Durham Division of Duke Forest, printed by Winston Printing Company of Winston-Salem and dated May 1975 to December 1978. North points to the upper left. It marks forest cover types, tree age classes, roads and Duke's West Campus, with insets of the Duke Homestead and of the forest's location.
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Books in OCPL’s Rebecca B. Wall Local History Collection at the Main Library in Hillsborough whose titles, catalog subjects or descriptions are about this site. The Friends’ recommended starting points are labelled.
In 2006, the Duke Forest's seventy-fifth year, the forest's office at Duke University published Ida Phillips Lynch's illustrated history of it. Duke manages the forest's more than 7,000 acres for research, teaching and recreation; four of its six divisions lie in Orange County, the others in Durham and Alamance. Color photographs and maps run through the 128 pages, which end with a bibliography.
Rachel Frankel's Duke University honors paper of 1984 on the Couch tract in the Durham Division of Duke Forest, a history of agricultural land use from 1750 to 1950. The Couch family, family farms and rural land use in Orange County are its subjects. A photocopied typescript, 97 leaves with maps and a bibliography.
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