In the meantime, demolition of many El Toro buildings has begun; Habitat for Humanity is working to salvage materials that can be used to build homes for the poor, Mr. Smith said.
Such was the case with Kathleen Whitehurst, an artist in Arnaudville, La., who scoured the countryside to salvage materials with which to build her home and guest house, the picturesque l'Esprit des Chenes.
Gates drew international acclaim in 2012 at Documenta 13 in Kassel, Germany, for 12 Ballads for Huguenot House, an installation crafted of salvage materials retrieved from one of his Grand Crossing properties and a local derelict building.
Ms. Gregori McKenzie's environmental ethos coupled with her affinity for the past sent her contractor to the city's French colonial-era warehouses, many of which were being torn down, to salvage materials.
(It's fun to use salvage materials like this, but keep in mind that the wood is often treated, so use such containers only for ornamentals, never vegetables or herbs.) Drought conditions also call for prairie plants, of course, and I'm thinking of another section for annual poppies, coneflowers, coreopsis, gaillardia, butterfly weed and black-eyed Susan.
A few of the salvage materials used at Brock Environmental Center.
Consider using salvage materials if you intend to make a larger greenhouse.
She described a trip to the local dump, where she salvaged material from a discarded sofa.
Following a cleanup, the activists used salvaged material to build benches, mobile sunshades and other elements of an ingenious, rapidly reconfigurable parliament – and the first question they put before this parliament was how to manage the site itself.
"The one thing we were most concerned about are the inscriptions by rescue workers on site," said Steven Weintraub, the founder and principal of Art Preservation Services of Manhattan, who is working with Voorsanger & Associates Architects, which began the task of salvaging material 17 days after the attack.
Tables of soil volumes that will be salvaged, material excavated and backfilled, and hectares of areas stripped of soil and graded with soil replaced and seeded are presented for each of the first 5 years, and in 5-year blocks thereafter, until the end of mining.
