Mr. Burgess
As Ran explained above, you may be able to make copies from your printer if you put it in the "landscape" setting instead of the "vertical" setting.
I have had a few requests to give presentations, but to date I have simply resorted to e-mailing my research to many club Boards and green's committees which have expressed an interest. I will be glad to do the same for you! Golfweek Magazine did ask that I give a presentation at "Raters Cup" at Victoria National in Indiana next month. But for a prior commitment, I certainly would not have declined Brad Klein's request.
Speaking of Brad Klein, he is the real expert on trees and golf architecture and design. I highly recommend his new book, "Discovering Donald Ross" (Sleeping Bear Press: 2001). It is the best! The chapters, "Reading a Ross Course" and "Rescuing Ross: The Fine Art of Restoration" is must reading for us all. Klein also wrote "Rough Meditations" (Sleeping Bear Press: 1997) which is also good. If you can get a copy of "The Architects of Golf" by Cornish and Whitten, then do so! Others include Geoff Schackelford's "Golden Age of Golf" and "Masters of the Links", and Tom Doak's "Anatomy of a Golf Course"(1992) and "Alister MacKenzie"(Sleeping Bear Press: 2001). "Golf Architecture" by Hurzdan is informative as well.
And depending on your budget and your degree of interest, Robert Muir Graves and Geoffrey Cornish actually teach a class at Harvard University every June on golf architecture and design. Pull up Harvard's website for a course description and dates. Usually, quite a few golf figures enroll in this class annually.
And by the way, this website is also an excellent source of information. With Brad Klein, Geoff Schackelford, Ron Whitten, Ron Pritchard and Tom Doak(etc.) contributing, you can certainly learn alot right here.
As far as trees and turfgrass go, they simply don't mix! Just look at the turfgrass below the trees at your home golf course. The grass here is usually unhealthy, dying, or already dead. Trees tend to block necessary morning sunlight, especially from the east, which inhibits growth. Trees further block air movement and air circulation which prevents the necessary exchange of gases required for growth. Trees are dominant plants to grass, and when competing for nutients and water, trees will always win. Also, in the winter, trees block necessary afternoon sunlight, especially from the west, which prevents frozen turfgrass areas to have a chance to thaw. Last year trees significantly contributed to the vast winterkill which struck many portions of our country. Therefore, you are basically setting yourself up for a hit if you don't pay more attention to the turfgrass areas which need more sunlight.
Some superintendents will seed and re-seed, and sod and re-sod these areas continuously. The results are usually the same. No grass! Worse yet, when all agronomic efforts fail, they will attempt to beautify these areas beneath and around trees with mulch and/or pine bark nuggets. Today, you will see it all around golf courses. It comes shredded, in mini-nuggets and large nuggets. Just try to attempt a recovery shot out of this mess! Regardless of your skill and shotmaking ability, you are stymied! Matters are compounded when they shape this material into little inverted pods approximately six(6) feet in diameter beneath virtually every sapling on the course. If engaged, you better hope that the tree is suspended by your typical tripod of wire with three(3) stakes(another subject of concern). Only then may you get relief legitimately.
Its not rocket science! Get a chainsaw, grow grass, and forget this foolishness!!!
I hope I answered your questions. You can contact me directly at dwhiteiii@triad.rr.com, and I will forward a copy of "Below the Trees" to you then. Best wishes with your potential golf course restoration project.
Dunlop