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Signs Group

Either with the Fence Group or as a separate entity, a sign shop may be created.

Many people will use the area. It will be necessary to instruct them, to get them to the correct places, to keep them out of hazardous areas. Signs can be used to create the property image, set (participate in) the style, and participate in the message that must somehow be communicated The following policies or concepts shape the work:

• to avoid the trite to avoid the garrish to avoid the easily despoiled to avoid the stylish
• to avoid images overly large or small
• to avoid materials difficult to replace or repair and to avoid the easily removed or vandalised
• to accentuate the harmony of the total property
• to make a clear statement of the harmony of the built and natural envi ronment
• to make a statement of strength to display durability
• to acknowledge the human-scale
• to communicate with images and graphics where words are not needed to enhance experiences with signs (e.g., "To the Creek " vs "To Roaring Run"to make signs part of the beauty of the place, neither neutral nor detracting
• The sign shop can use native materials. A work force can be employed. Personalized signs may be sold to visitors. Community metal signs for streets and other purposes may be replaced by locally-produced signs.
• Other wood-related crafts using the short logs and small-piece, solar-dried wood of the property may be developed further.
• Concepts of Street Graphics should be used and consultants of the U.S. Park Service should be sought, perhaps through Congressional liaison.

The shop may later expand to deal with wooden toys, art pieces, gift items, and garden art.

Wastes are recycled to the property.

The concept displayed is to get the highest possible human value from the wood on the property, to unify wood with ideas and processing, to maximize profits, to relate people to wood and the land, to create an alternative industry, to provide artistic services to enhance the value of the land, to provide employment potentials especially for indoor work and perhaps only part time, to develop a guild atmosphere with apprentice workers, and to cause a wood-art artist community to flourish.

There now exists massive wood sculpture of impressive imagination and artistry. Perhaps one or more sculptors of such works can be brought to the area. Working with wood from the property, and tools powered by energy from the property, they may create 50 to 100 sculptures that may be placed at special places throughout the area to enhance the recreational experiences, the pleasure of auto drives and using wagons on snow trails, and to adorn the areas near camps and adult education centers.

Later these may be produced for sale, using pallets and boxes from local wood for shipment around the world.

The operation should be designed so tours can be conducted or so visitors may view operations in safety.

Initial Needs: Design standards, work space, saws, routing equipment, preservatives, paint shop, craftsperson.

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