The Straw Bale Association of Nebraska (SBAN) no longer publishes a quarterly newsletter. We recommend you subscribe to The Last Straw journal.

One activity that SBAN is actively engaged in is the historic preservation of the ten bale buildings in Nebraska. Please sign the online petition to the Nebraska State Historical Society for help in saving and preserving Nebraska's historic straw-bale buildings to help us with this project.

Photos of some of the historic bale buildings are posted on this web site (Photo Tour). Please note that these are not current photographs of the buildings. Additional photographs can be found at these web sites:

http://www.dcat.net/about_dcat/current/codes.php includes information and videos from the 2007 ASTM fire tests.

www.strawhomes.com/sban/tour/tour.html

REPP.org's strawbale info

http://www.skillful-means.com/strawbale/papers/historic.htm

http://www.skillful-means.com/menupages/strawbaletips.html

http://apps1.eere.energy.gov/consumer/your_home/designing_remodeling/index.cfm/mytopic=10350


International Strawbale Building Registry